This donation certainly will not hurt anything.

Right. So that means poor people should never have an opinion about money. They should all sit down and shit up until they are able to afford to donate some percentage of the wealth they don’t currently have.

Did you miss where Nolan wrote about the “diminishing marginal utility” of money? That means donating x% of Nolan’s net worth is way more meaningful and financially painful than Bezos donating the same percentage. Or even much, much more. Hell, Bezos could donate 99% of his net worth and he’d still be extremely rich…

No, we understand. But I see you’re the “you don’t know the difference between a magazine and a clip, you dummy! So you’re not allowed to have an opinion about gun control policy!” But for finance instead of guns.

There’s nothing to tax. It’s almost all share value, not money.

Yes, possibly. Depending on how his income is structured it’s entirely possible that he pays a lower effective rate than plenty of people posting here pay. Like if his income comes from capital gains it’s possible he is paying something like 20% instead of something more like 37% if his income came from wages for his…

It’s not “his” money. It’s a representation of rights which only exist because we all decided together it should exist.

Totally. Those are the only options. Bezos generously gives us a pittance of the money he only has because of all of us, or nothing. There is nothing else we can hope for with the money.

Or maybe their kids aren’t as good at putting on the mask of “reasonableness” as their dads. “Reasonable republicans” aren’t necessarily as dying breed. It might just be they haven’t existed in anyone currently alive’s lifetime.

Are you a founding fathers cosplayer? Do you think political beliefs are formed in grand salons where the great advocates square off against one another while the crowd carefully and respectfully engages with the ideas among themselves?

“What massively nationalized economy has not created conflict and strife?”

“is that people aren’t holding their own parties accountable”

It actually has worked out for “the poors”. It hasn’t worked out historically for the rich. Which is why the rich do everything in their power to privatize publicly owned capital. Or maybe you think the rich want to take over state owned capital for themselves because the rich feel a deep sense of noblesse oblige…

Lamenting how nowadays “winning voters through pure virtue of ideas is dead” sounds very anti-democratic.

“Some folks”? You mean “everybody”. No one wins by changing minds. You win by out-voting the people who disagree with you position.

Jesus, can we get some better resident DLCist trolls? You do know Sanders was using the phrase “Medicare For All” during the 2016 primary, right? The idea “Medicare For All” is a phrase the Democratic party has picked up on in order to disassociate from Bernie is just incredibly dumb and almost Stalinesque in its…

He hasn’t recanted his bailing out the banks or “not sending to jail white collar criminals who destroyed our economy and destroyed peoples’ lives ” policies. So there isn’t much evidence yet to suggest those were not his Plan A’s all along.

Bro, you don’t know shit about me. My opa and oma spent their entire lives trying to recover property from the Hungarian Peoples’ Republic government that had been confiscated by the Germans when my grandfather fled Europe and then taken from the Germans by the post-war communist government. The reason my opa, and…

The amount of information these electric cars can give about operating conditions before/during a car crash sounds like it could be a huge game changer for litigating car crashes. The lawyers could create a convincing reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash without needing to rely as much on ephemeral…

What other method do you think the author is suggesting we use to confiscate wealth? Marching in to a richer person’s house and rifling through their draws? Canceling treasury bond repayment? Using eminent domain to take rich peoples’ houses without providing any compensation?