Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Better Than Charity" video.

There were discussions in the past about making campaign promises like that. It was if it violating election laws by basically buying the vote. I think it's one that should be revisited.
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You're free to seek a job that offers you more. That's how the free market works. If a company wants the best employees, it has to offer the best incentives and/or pay. A good example was before COVID. The economy was booming so much and unemployment so low, businesses were competing for workers. As a result companies started offering more things like paid maternity leave, more paid vacation time, and other things.
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Then the workers should find better jobs. Nobody is forcing them to work there. That's how you correct it, you make it difficult for them to get good employees. It was my understanding it pays minimum of $15 an hour. That's what the minimum wage is going to be raised to soon because it's considered a liveable wage. Stacking boxes isn't a skilled labor, so how much do you think unskilled labor should be worth?
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It was 9.2 percent in 2017 and drops nearly a percentage point every year, so it's likely correct. Unfortunately the lockdowns will make it rise for the first time in 20 years. That $1.90 a day per the World Bank. Edit to add: Took 2 seconds on Google. Maybe try it next time.
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@Aliens-Are-Our-Friends2027 You said fact check and that's what you got. Nothing that you just mentioned has anything to do with your original comment. I'll answer it anyway. Many countries aren't developed yet so all that technology is worthless. There are many that don't have access to even electricity so what good is technology to them? You're trying to compare apples to oranges. A fully developed country, like the US, is going to be ahead financially of a still developing one. You're welcome to look into the factors that have played into that over the centuries, but the main one is stability.
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@brianw.5230 Who are you to decide what someone else does or doesn't need? It's not your decision. Thinking that it is is one of the problems addressed in this video. He only gets paid $85,000 as his salary from Amazon. The majority of the profits are reinvested into the company for growth. That growth provides more job plus increases other employment in the areas it expands to.
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@gregoryeverson741 That depends on where you live. Where I am has a low cost of living and on $15 an hour you can live comfortably. This idea that because something is that way where you are, it's that way everywhere isn't based in reality. A $15 an hour forced wage would destroy small businesses here. Raising prices would be the only way they'd survive. My son makes $14 an hour now. He bought a new truck and has saved enough to move to his own place and paid off his student loans. You are an example of why treating everywhere the same by the federal government isn't a good thing. How do I know what the market here can stand? I'm own a small business here.
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@MirzaAhmed89 They don't understand how business or assets work. That's abundantly clear.
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@brianw.5230 Who are you to decide that someone else is greedy? His wealth doesn't hurt you. Wealth isn't a pie that is limited in amount. Greed is when you take something for yourself and leave little for others. Wealth doesn't work like that. It is limitless so you can't be greedy with it. You can choose not to share it, but by employing hundreds of thousands of people, he's sharing it. So again, not greedy. You are under the belief that wealth is a tangible good and it isn't.
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@JasontheLayman They don't understand that "wealth" is just a number and has no real value outside of getting a bank loan or social status. It's worthless because it's not real unless you liquidate it.
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That's because of our definition of homeless. Both my sons are engaged and their significant others live with us. Technically that makes both of them homeless even though they have everything they need. The youngest son's goes to college fulltime and gets all kinds of grants because she's considered homeless. Homeless means not renting or owning a home and not living with a family member. As long as you don't claim that person as a dependent on your tax return, the government considers them homeless.
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@andrewfreeman88 You're right how dare he have an idea, lose money for years to get it going, and then make money from it. The horrors!! Meanwhile celebrities and athletes make tons of cash for just being good at something.
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@andrewfreeman88 The fact that you automatically go to his wealth proves my point. I'm defending his right to monetary success. What people fail to understand is that if it's okay to punish him for being good at something, then why should anyone strive to be good at anything if you're going to be punished for it? His wealth is on paper only and based on Amazon stock. He gets an $85,000 salary from his own company and reinvests the profits back into the company on a global scale. You and others are upset about fake wealth that is only good to borrow from a bank with. In order for him to have the amount of actual money you think he does, he'd have to sell his stocks and lose control of the company.
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To all the people in the comments trashing Bezos, he's technically a Gen X. We faced a horrible financial future as our jobs were shipped overseas. We had to figure out on our own how to make money in a totally new environment. That's why we head 50% of startups. We figured out to find something people will want. It's no different then Millennials becoming influencers and making money by creating content. I do the same thing, I make things that a niche market wants and I provide it to them. Just because I can't and don't want to do it on the scale he does, doesn't make us different so I guess off with my head too.
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Why did you put her/her? Did you mean her/him? If you don't even know the sex of the person you're speaking about, I hardly think you're educated enough about them to pass judgment.
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How so? I can order stuff online without using Amazon at all and do. In fact, Amazon isn't usually even the cheapest which I had a hard time convincing my husband of. If that's the only place you look, that's on you.
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We have that in my state. You are allowed assistance for 2 years. After that you must either perform community service or job training for at least 20 hours a week. I've had women come by my house selling stuff from the job training part and I always buy it to encourage them.
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Name a capitalist country that has slavery. If you consider working for someone else "slavery", then start your own business.
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How do you know he didn't? Did you do the work yourself to figure it out or just assume that because he didn't say he did? Someone already made that comment and it was addressed.
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Walmart tried that and was successful for awhile, but untimely small businesses came back. It's because they can't carry everything someone could want. Sewing is a good example. When they first came to my town, they offered a large selection because we had a Hancock's fabric store. Walmart was cheaper and eventually Hancock's folded globally. As soon as that happened, they stopped carrying it, so two small businesses opened up to fill the void. Walmart here didn't see them as a threat and didn't offer sewing supplies until COVID. Basically businesses like that can only hold off larger businesses. They have limited space so can't constantly crush the little guy.
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It lost money for a very long time. How is that any different than getting private investment which every growing company does? I seriously want you to explain the difference.
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That's his estimated wealth, not his actual bank account. It's fake and on paper only in his stocks. His liquid assets are not anywhere near that.
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No. That's worse. The government doesn't produce anything. The money they have comes from tax dollars. So the only way to do that is for the government to control the means of production. That's called Communism and it's very bad.
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You're confusing extreme poverty and the poverty line in the US. The US only has a tiny portion of the population that lives in what's considered extreme poverty and those are mostly people who choose to live off grid. Extreme poverty is what is tracked by the UN and other organizations. The US poverty level is based on cost of living which fluctuates from place to place. In New York City, for example, $21,000 a year (the poverty line) isn't going to go far. Where I live, it's definitely liveable and you'll only lack luxury items like clothes bought from a nice department store or only 1 TV instead of 3. As for China haven "beaten" poverty, they are no where near the GDP per capita that the US is. Their average income in US dollars is below what we consider the poverty line here. That translates to the "poor" in the US has more than the average citizen of China.
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