Mark Cuban is ‘proud to pay’ $275.9 million in taxes
Mark Cuban is ‘proud to pay’ $275.9 million in taxes
Billionaire Mark Cuban says he's happy to pay the $275.9 million he owes in taxes for 2023.
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Ah it‘s uplifting news that a billionaire pays the taxes he legally owes? Fuck this. Eat the rich.
I mean, I kind of like the fact that he's flexing paying his taxes to other billionaires, signaling that he's better than them for doing so. It would be kind of nice if every billionaire started flexing on one another like this and started trying to one up one another to showcase "whose the better person" sort of thing. Pipe dream, I know, but a girl CAN dream after all.
It's a nice dream, but I prefer my dream of IRS agents blasting open a mansion door with C4 and arresting the billionaire who pays less tax than me. Oh and while civil asset forfeiture is a thing, they can do that too. Charge the mansion with a crime and turn it into affordable housing.
I think one of the ways we can get this to happen more often is by celebrating these wins. That's sorta a way to get good things to continue happening. It's someone making the correct moral choice. Let's support that while continuing to demonize the bullshit the other billionaires do.
When all the other billionaires don't yeah it's a good thing.
I don't think frequency has any affect on morality of doing the bare fucking minimum.
Yes, it is. $275m is a lot more than I’ll ever be able to contribute to society
That's because you haven't extracted 95 times that first.
I guarantee you - even if you haven't paid a single penny in tax your entire life, by virtue of not being a billionaire, you have contributed significantly more to society than this leech ever has or will.
It's scary how good a job the billionaires have done in convincing you (and many many others) it's somehow the other way around.
Let's imagine a village a few thousand years ago, at harvest time. There's one guy who's physically much bigger than the others, didn't do any work for the crop, and stands there with a sword to steal 80% of everything everyone else has harvested.
Then a day later he holds a gathering where he gives back 10% of what he stole and people cheer him for being charitable, because in the other villages the people who steal the grain don't give any back at all.
Crazy.
There's practically no other issues on Earth than ones caused by greedy rich people. We have the resources and technology to end world hunger and do other such things, but they aren't being done because there's no immediate profit to be extracted from it. Even though on a global, socioeconomic level, it would have massive effects, which would actually translate to better markets and profits even for capitalists, but they just need to get immediate profit, the blind ignorant fucks.
It's scary how good a job the billionaires have done in convincing you (and many many others) it's somehow the other way around.
Its honestly the one of the great psyops of history.
$275m is money he took from other people's excess production.
He didn't make that money: he stole it and got lucky.
There are no good billionaires get it through your head.
I buy my meds from his online store that he set up solely to compete with the absurd pricing of pharmaceuticals in the us. Saving a good bit too. He also made millionaires of most of the employees from his first successful business before he was a billionaire. I hate billionaires and he has surely done some fucked up things, but Mark Cuban does seem to be cut from a different cloth. I definitely appreciate his pharmacy.
The thing is, there was only ever one good billionaire and he gave his money away to such a degree he was no longer a billionaire. While Mark Cuban has done good, surely even saved and improved many lives, he still has a billion more ways to do so. Plenty of good millionaires out in the world, there are no good billionaires.
The mere concept of a billion anything is so hard to comprehend that it serves repeating.
One million seconds is 12 days. One billion seconds is 32 years.
Millionaires good. Billionaires bad.
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Millionaires (can be) good. Billionaires (are always) bad.
Riiiiiiight.
You one of those "if you have more money than me, you have too much money" folks?
Actually the opposite. I love coming here and watching the anti-capitalist screech about "rich man bad poor man good". I have no feelings against billionaires one way or the other.
I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy of calling billionaires bad guys, but giving millionaires a pass.
It's not hypocrisy. A billionaire is orders of magnitudes richer than a millionaire. A millionaire doesn't have nearly the same capacity to do overwhelming good as a billionaire does.
A millionaire who chooses not to use their money to help isn't good but a billionaire who chooses not to use their money to help is decidedly evil.
Much like how you not giving half your sandwich to a homeless guy isn't good but a restaurant that throws out perfectly good food at the end of the night directly next to a homeless shelter is decidedly evil.
He didn't contribute that, workers did.
You sound like you’d be happy to let Mark Cuban fuck your wife and that’s an embarrassing look bro.
Well, bro, I have a husband and I don’t think they’re each other’s type
It kimda is uplifting. Which really tells how low the bar is
Guys! Someone did something minimally good. Let's make sure to insult him for it so he researches how to avoid it next time.