Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bernie Piledrives Billionaire Funded Candidates To Their Faces" video.

  1.  @reddymon  , so ignore as opposed to giving a counter argument? Here, I will educate you. On Bernie saying 3 people have more wealth than then bottom half, that is very misleading. Most of their wealth are tied into shares of their business. It is not actual liquidated assets, it is simply shares of their company. One reason why they are worth so much is because they own the shares which shows they are willing to go down with their company. Most of Bezos' wealth is in his shares of his company. If he company fails he goes broke. Him holding on to those shares increase investors' confidence. Next, a lot of people, like me, have negative wealth due to loans, either college or home loans. That is arguably a good thing as it shows that us as a nation allows people to pull out major loans with confidence they will get their money back. Read the 2019 article from the Oxford Review of Economic Policy entitled "Measuring inequality " At one point they write "Take, for example, a student. In many cases their student debt will outweigh their other financial assets, and so they will have negative financial wealth. However, we would not typically say that they are in a worse position than never having studied at all. The reason is because the student has taken on debt to accumulate human capital, which is valuable as a means to increase lifetime earnings but not typically counted as wealth. Policies designed to reduce wealth inequality could therefore have many undesirable consequences, not least redistributing away from people with zero assets towards those with negative assets." Who is in worse shape? Me with negative student loan debt or some homeless person on the street with no assets and no wealth? Shouting "wealth inequality" is incredibly misleading.
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  2.  @bamwesty8158  , so no actual rebuttal?
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  3.  @J4R0D  , exactly. They don't understand liquidated vs non liquidated assets.
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  4.  @valeriouscatastros8717  , except Bernie is not popular. If he ran against Trump Bernie will be destroyed. The people who resonate with Bernie simply don't understand economics. That is why they don't understand what wealth is. By their standard a homeless guy is in better position than I am because I have negative wealth and the homeless guy has no wealth.
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  5.  Cthulhu In the deep  , he is paid $80,000 a year. Now he can liquidated his shares, but if he does it way too much it will send out red flags to investors and they will pull out. Also, using shares for personal use as opposed to investing back into the business can piss off investors as well. I recommend you take some corporate finance classes.
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  6.  @aTron0018  , AOC? The same person who compared us to puppies? Dogs are a completely different animal than us genetically. But AOC feels we can compare human behavior to them.
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  7.  @Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF  not a fan of him
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  8. His ideas are radical. He pushes them on misinformation and deception, and he mislead the public.
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  9.  @reddymon  , at this point you will run away or simply say the Oxford Review of Economic Policy is just some corrupt, bias source.
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  10.  @a_can_of_soda  , he caused a depression.
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  11.  @declaringpond2276  The Kardashian kids are the outlier, not the norm when it comes to the rich.
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  12.  @a_can_of_soda  , the recession started then. FDR took over and expanded on Hoover's policies prolonging recovering and thus creating the recession. Learn history bud.
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  13.  @declaringpond2276  , no matter what system you have the rich will always be rich. You can either have 1. A heavily regulated and taxed system where the rich will find a way to abuse the system in their favor and get rich through political gain or 2. A free market system where the only way the rich become rich is by serving us, the people. I will pick the latter. And you say they horde money. They don't. Again, most of their wealth is non liquidated.
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  14.  @rebirthoflegend4797  wtf
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  15.  @declaringpond2276  , I agree that in a lot of ways we don't live in a free market.
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  16.  @valeriouscatastros8717  , actually Trump is very well liked and you will see that come 2020 when he wins by a wider margin. Polls are irrelevant as zero attack ads has come out yet. If Bernie ran against Trump all Bernie will do is make accusations with no evidence. He will be pressed to argue against the strong economy, which he drastically wants to change, and won't have any answer. He would win 10, maybe 15 states at best. You say republicans don't care about individual race groups. That is because they don't see race, they see people. Ever thought of that? Trump does not have to convince Bernie supporters, only moderates.
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  17. Well, you know what they say about a fool and their money........
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