Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Briahna Joy Gray: Davos Elites Did WHAT?! Inside Their Tax Code Grift" video.

The French Ministry of Interior admitted that over a million people went on strike Thursday. "Transport, schools and refinery shipments were disrupted as workers walked off the jobs . . . " EDIT: Close to TWO MILLION --- a general strike
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THIS! Finally, someone asks the astute question.
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@paulweeldreyer7457 Two million of those humans just went on strike in France. Well, the French are super human, hm? ;)
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I agree. It's working too well not to ask some questions about its origins.
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@paulweeldreyer7457 Actually, it is the only theory that is internally consistent. You confuse value and price. Did the value of a college education rise commensurate with its price? Did the value of my home rise during the pandemic commensurate with its price? Is the value of money the same as its price?
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The way that financial assets at that level are held, as well as the marginal value of a dollar, are entirely different from how they are held and deployed by those who use their money to buy necessities, and increase their purchasing in quality and quantity commensurate with an increase in their wealth. The billionaires can decide what happens to billions of others; we tolerated it as long as those billions of people were in the global South. Well, the chickens sure are coming home to roost. I sort-of think a Harvard Law grad knows this. We need to start illustrating what this sort of money means, and then go on to more sophisticated analyses. I can no longer avoid Amazon. They have bought up too much of retail for me to avoid them now. They were allowed to do that. I can do nothing about that, either. Even the pandemic shutdowns catered to them: they were often the only business where you could buy certain things, and their warehouses were never shut down. Small stores were.
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@titanstown2452 Are you also seething about the fact that Bri is smarter and better looking? Does that get your goat, too?
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Most people don't have an inkling of what these numbers mean. I have never stood in front of a college class, including one with IT majors in it, where anyone estimated 1 trillion seconds to be longer than a few centuries. It's about 316 centuries, in fact. Some people have even thought that their heart will beat a trillion times in a lifetime -- I guess if they practice Positive Thinking and live to 95. I mean, we are in some serious trouble right there.
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Oh right, let's now s*** his **** until we either tire of him or find out he has a Bill Gates side (which anyone paying attention already knows, and the worst litigation brought against him gets the least press). Maybe you should ask yourself what this need for hero worship says about you -- and the hero is never a Danny Sjursen, a Chris Hedges, a Vasili Arkhipov, or a real artist for that matter.
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If you need a road bad enough, you'll find a way to build one.
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@eddievangundy4510 They are not comparing CEO earnings with foreign labor, because that is not comparable. The value of a dollar is not the same in different economies.
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@frankvonfrauner In the context of the OP as written, this wasn't a mistake at all. That was so ridiculously pedantic on your part, which means you probably don't have a main squeeze or you don't like them all that much.
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@radupopa6642 Diagnosis, perfect. The treatment is not simple, though. It would cause a 2008-style implosion and possibly destroy the preferred status of the dollar. The economy was rendered more and more fragile each decade since 1980. A move away from the dollar as the global reserve currency would likely lead to massive inflation, which would then lead to all-out war.
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Odd how much access he has to special terms, to borrow against those shares, and not from speculative entities but from banks that the government stands behind.
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Who in the world told you this? Do not buy a used car from that man.
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Actually, none other than Adam Smith and John Locke talked about the dangers of the privatization of "the commons," and the distortions the new rentier class introduces into the productive, entrepreneurial sphere of the economy. So, a simple answer would be that you do receive essential services from a state that we have to pay for. But the bigger answer has to do with what can be privatized, and what you can be forced to pay for things you literally cannot live without. Even allowing severe air pollution without penalty and clean-up is an encroachment on free air for all. It's incipient privatization.
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You want those people around kids?
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@QueenLolaBouli Thank you for the clarification. You said you wanted to make them "participate" in these things, not make them pay. Of course they should pay. Young people have to go into massive debt to afford the things they once had in return for working at a minimum wage job -- literally. A summer of minimum wage work paid for a full year of tuition and fees at most state universities for in-state students. Ponder that! You know what used to support that? State taxes, and the fact that university faculty and staff had access to safe, affordable housing.
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A billion dollars at 32 is like collecting over $85,500 a day . . . every day, from the day you were born. That's just one billion. Founding Facebook "earned" this??
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That anyone could still believe what you just said . . . you strung together every cliche that still exists, and that has been disproven in every major financial panic over the last 150+ years. A billion dollars at age 32 is like accumulating $85,500 a day -- from birth. Explain how, say, an "essential service" like Facebook can "earn" that. Well, I can explain it: at its inception, it functioned as the most effective combination of advertising and surveillance -- corporate and government -- ever devised, and the users themselves participated willingly, but not with informed consent. Anyway, yawn. I don't know about "human nature," but the nature of your character gives me pause. I only hope you are paid to post, and in the present economy I can grudgingly respect that. Otherwise, it's unfathomable.
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I know. The jealously toward Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Nancy and Paul Pelosi, the Clintons, Bill Gates, Clinton confidante Ghislaine, and Jeff (a/k/s dik pix) Bezos was already out of hand, but the assault on Our Betters at the World Economic Forum meeting for our benefit in Davos really does take the cake.
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@titanstown2452 Who "made" what, and how? They "worked" for it? Do you know what $70 million in a year is? It's nearly $8000 an hour, for every hour of every day in the year. Who "earned" that? How? And isn't it odd, that only about 50 years ago, no one "earned" that much more than the people working under them; the lowliest worker made 1/25 of what the CEO made, not 1/355. How did this get decided? Elon Musk? Tesla has one of the worse employment discrimination cases filed against it (that for some reason no one hears about) in this century or the last, and Neuralink has complaints against it for primate torture that are harrowing. The court papers are available online; the usual excuse is that "Elon didn't know," which kind-of contradicts that he "works so hard." The case where he tweeted and the stock market reacted is getting a lot of press time, though, as if that were more important. You can find all of this online -- I mean the actual court documents, not someone's dubious regurgitation of them. What do you think rich people do with their money, besides control others? What do you think it's about? Ordinary people put money to far better use overall.
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@titanstown2452 By the way, what's Bill Gates going to do with all that farmland? If I ask, does that make me "jealous of rich people?"
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@titanstown2452 Nobody's crying. Have you ever been to Montenegro? That's where my family lives, and I'm moving. You have no idea what quality of life means. Ordinary people have four balconies; eggplant, arugula, and fresh-caught fish are not a luxury, they are staples. They walk to work and get off at 3 pm. I don't think any of these freaks you mention live better. I don't want "their" money, it's dirty for sure. You're too primitive to understand anything. Of course the banks are going to try to make M go the way of Greece, but there will be resistance. It's too French-leaning to give in easily, and bend over like the people in the Five Eyes do.
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@titanstown2452 It's none of my business what he does with the farmland? And if he creates so much pollution and GMOs, which he supports, that organic food (= real food) costs triple? Still not my business? Anyway, I have somewhere to go. Do you? You deserve the Epstein crowd. Too bad the rest of the planet doesn't. Do you really not see what these people LOOK like? That alone would deter anyone normal from wanting to emulate them, or defend them. Something is wrong with this picture.
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@titanstown2452 Oh now I get it. The gentleman protests too much. You accuse others of being "jealous of rich people" to deflect from the fact that YOU are jealous of rich people. You know, this doesn't work. Most people will see through it sooner or later. You denounce in "others" what you don't like about yourself. This took me a while, true. Everyone starts with themselves, and by starting with myself, I couldn't get to where you are.
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Just a small point . . . did you know that many major corporations pay more in lobbyists' fees than in taxes? Even magazines like Fortune and Forbes, and the WSJ, report that -- because it no longer needs to be hidden. Now here is a fun fact: instead of paying taxes, they pay the lobbyists to write the taxes. Then, the government sells bonds, and the corporations buy them. Hence, the US government owes those corporations money, in the form of interest on those bonds, instead of collecting money from them. They are now a creditor. You work, you pay, your money goes to pay them. Who has power in this picture? Does it sound like a democracy to you? Just one small example that you seem not to have been informed about.
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Were you jealous of Jeffrey Epstein, too? 🤣
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Odd how much access he has to special terms, to borrow against those shares, and not from speculative entities but from banks that the government stands behind. Sounds kinda risky, huh?
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Jeff thanks you. Bezos, not Epstein. "Mr. Epstein? He dead."
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