• Fingolfinz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    56
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Anyone who isn’t rich in America can go fuck yourself is what they’ve been saying for a while in words and actions. Millionaires are the middle class today, actors and athletes and pop stars. Anything below is just a fucking scum fuck to them.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      3 days ago

      Oddly, millionaires aren’t really the middle class. House’s in California routinely cost more than a million dollars. And a lot of people probably have a million dollars of retirement in one form or another. (Pensions have a value that very often tops a million). The middle class you are describing (athletes and pop stars) probably are more like 100 million or something. We just don’t have a good name for that.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        Petite bourgeoisie is what they are called. Wealthy people without an aristocratic title, not part of the ruling class and who still use their own labor to create wealth.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      3 days ago

      millionaires are way above middle class, middle class is usually around depending on area, is 50k-100k.year. millionaires are way above that. they usually buy multimillionaire(5+million) dollar homes, and often sometimes have multiples. actors,c elebrities are hundred millionaires, they are very wealthy individuals, billionaires are just obscene.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    3 days ago

    How about drones? If you don’t want all of your information avaible online and don’t want remoteid to directly tell anyone and everyone where you live you can request not to do any of that stuff, right? Oh no, this is just for rich people flying in private jets that can transport humans and tons of cargo.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    3 days ago

    This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don’t care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 days ago

      If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?

      Huh… Recent context has really ruined jokes like this…

  • Wren@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 days ago

    I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.

    • 474D@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      37
      ·
      edit-2
      3 days ago

      She may not be as bad but she’s still a billionaire who rides her private jet everywhere on a whim contributing more to climate change than thousands of people will in multiple lifetimes and was included in the Panama Papers. Her greed and abuse of the system will always be closer to Elon than any of us

      • Ledericas@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        the joke about her being extremely vexatiously litigious around her music too.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Maybe they’re rich people saying fuck y’all, but TBH we’ve been able to keep website registration info private for years, and privacy is such a big thing now, sure why not.

  • systemglitch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    This is a good thing for us normal humans. More privacy is always a good thing. Let it spread further…

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 days ago

      This is a good thing for us normal humans. More privacy is always a good thing. Let it spread further…

      I mean do we have any reason to expect it to travel further? The system made a few billionares feel uncomfortable, now they don’t feel uncomfortable, the law isn’t going to expand.

      If a face tracking or car tracking system were to go live. Billionares would find a way to exempt themselves from it, but make sure it was live for everyone else. The reason there aren’t exceptions made for this rule, are because there’s not a whole lot of poor private plane owners.

        • TheFogan@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 days ago

          can you explain where I’m missing here? unless I’m majorly missing something, is there a benefit for people who don’t own, or regularly travel in private planes?

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      mostly because shes been promoting what her fans believe, and now she seen as a hypocrite for that. she did. hers a little more complex.