Billionaires profit from the corona crisis

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Life would be so much better when you had to pay more, had to go to multiple stores to find what you want, and had to rely on home spun wisdom from Grand Papi instead of being able to gain any knowledge you want for free with the click of a mouse.

It must be the wet dream of intelligence agencies to force us to pre-order anything we buy. Effectively mandating cash payments is already wonderful as Big Brother wants to know everything.
But forcing us to order (through the internet) gives them the opportunity to delay or make some changes to what dangerous thoughtterrorists buy (and anybody that doesn't bow down to Big Brother is dangerous to say the least).

Just wait until they forbid us to buy food at shops or restaurants, so they can neutralise all corona terrorists (premeditated murder by poisoning sounds a bit too harsh don't you agree?).
Of course a wonderful obedient slave like you has nothing to fear from the "authorities" (unless of course you've learned information that they want to keep secret).

It's really computer technology that has made man obsolete not to mention the billionaires even richer.
It's also computer technology that enables them to finally rid their brave new world of all those useless eaters, who complain that they actually have to work while the billionaires get richer while sitting on their a$$ all day.

This brings us the final solution that doesn't require expensive, inefficient wars, but thanks to real science being effectively destroyed in the 20th century, health care can and will drastically reduce the world population.

So this all leads to the 21th century version of "kill the poor".

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The COVID-19 "pandemic" has made 50 pharmaceutical executives billionaires, with 28 from China.

The new billionaires include the co-founder of BioNTech, which helped develop the Pfizer vaccine, Uğur Şahin, and the CEO of Massachusetts-based Moderna Stéphane Bancel: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lionaires.html


A video from Ben Swann, who argues that the billionaires will use their power to keep the economy in the coronavirus lockdown, as U.S. billionaires saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion since the pandemic was started.

[Krugminator2]

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Of course a wonderful obedient slave like you has nothing to fear from the "authorities" (unless of course you've learned information that they want to keep secret).

Google delivers the average person around $17,750 worth of value each year. https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...p-using-google If happily using Google makes me an obedient slave, so be it. I say thank you to the geniuses who founded the search engine.

It's really computer technology that has made man obsolete not to mention the billionaires even richer.
It's also computer technology that enables them to finally rid their brave new world of all those useless eaters, who complain that they actually have to work while the billionaires get richer while sitting on their a$$ all day.

Here is an unpopular view. Rich people work a lot harder than the average person. And poor people as a group are usually lazier and/or more undisciplined. I know that doesn't fit in with the zero sum world of internet posters who think life is random and rich people are just lucky and poor people unlucky, but it happens to be true.


"Our data reveal that 62% of high-earning individuals work more than 50 hours a week, 35% work more than 60 hours a week, and 10% work more than 80 hours a week. Add in a typical one-hour commute, and a 60-hour workweek translates into leaving the house at 7 am and getting home at 9 pm five days a week. If we focus on the subset of those workers who hold what we consider extreme jobs (a designation based on responsibilities and other attributes beyond pay), the hours are even more punishing. The majority of them (56%) work 70 hours or more a week, and 9% work 100 hours or more" https://hbr.org/2006/12/extreme-jobs-the-dangerous-allure-of-the-70-hour-workweek

America’s highest earners work at least 60 hours a week—more than anyone else in the world https://qz.com/134064/the-industrial...rking-so-much/

Why High Earners Work Longer Hours https://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/wh...k-longer-hours

[devil21]

Google delivers the average person around $17,750 worth of value each year. https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...p-using-google If happily using Google makes me an obedient slave, so be it. I say thank you to the geniuses who founded the search engine.

I wouldn't pay Google a red cent. I don't need to pay someone to control my choices and information. In fact, I use Google less and less because it's obvious I am not being served by their services, but rather I am serving their services. It's ridiculous how a search for a type of product on Google automatically pushes me toward another agenda-compliant big box store, while a search on duckduckgo.com yields completely different results. Google exists to perpetuate sales for the agenda-compliant Wall St darlings like Home Depot and Amazon and to limit what information is available.

Here is an unpopular view. Rich people work a lot harder than the average person. And poor people as a group are usually lazier and/or more undisciplined. I know that doesn't fit in with the zero sum world of internet posters who think life is random and rich people are just lucky and poor people unlucky, but it happens to be true.

It's hard work flying to Davos, staying in 5 star hotels while drinking 35yo scotch and eating wagu beef and truffle dinners after calling up Jay Powell when more money is needed to keep the zombie corp afloat for another year via an illegal Fed bond-buying SPV. How ever do they manage such a rough life? They're certainly much harder workers than the girl who stands on her feet outside in all weather conditions for 9 hours a day, 6 days a week taking Chic-fil-a orders from the rest of the lazy slaves.

"Our data reveal that 62% of high-earning individuals work more than 50 hours a week, 35% work more than 60 hours a week, and 10% work more than 80 hours a week. Add in a typical one-hour commute, and a 60-hour workweek translates into leaving the house at 7 am and getting home at 9 pm five days a week. If we focus on the subset of those workers who hold what we consider extreme jobs (a designation based on responsibilities and other attributes beyond pay), the hours are even more punishing. The majority of them (56%) work 70 hours or more a week, and 9% work 100 hours or more" https://hbr.org/2006/12/extreme-jobs-the-dangerous-allure-of-the-70-hour-workweek

America’s highest earners work at least 60 hours a week—more than anyone else in the world https://qz.com/134064/the-industrial...rking-so-much/

Why High Earners Work Longer Hours https://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/wh...k-longer-hours

Perhaps you have a point, after all. It probably does take long hours to engineer and rig how to enslave the entire world. Touche'

[Okie RP fan]

Google delivers the average person around $17,750 worth of value each year. https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...p-using-google If happily using Google makes me an obedient slave, so be it. I say thank you to the geniuses who founded the search engine.

Yea, sure. Thanks to Google, much value has been brought to billions. I'll acknowledge that. But let's not act like they're angels and turn a blind eye to all of the other nefarious activities they partake in now. Activities such as search manipulation, propaganda, spying, etc. that I'm sure even you can't defend (and don't try because you won't be convincing anyone here other than yourself).

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Yeah sure whatever, they're great at having nice conversations with their wealthy friends and cronies!



The following thread (with more dubious posts by @Krugminator2) shows that the whole game is rigged.

Bezos, Zuckerberg, Blavatnik, Peter Thiel, Bronfman, Clinton and Kushner all on the same team: Bronfman-Clinton-Bezos-and-Facebook-insider-trading

I can't speak to their political views, and haven't (yet) read that thread, but...

...wouldn't it be nice, just for once, to have a political class which has some kind of skill beyond lying to rubes?

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...wouldn't it be nice, just for once, to have a political class which has some kind of skill beyond lying to rubes?

It would be nice to have some politicians with class for a change...

The notion of a political class used by the ruling class to exploit the peasants, is slavery (that was supposedly abolished a long time ago).

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According to CNBC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, with a net worth of over $185 billion. Reportedly Musk owned $27 billion at the start of 2020, with the skyrocketing Tesla shares making his wealth balloon.


Second richest in the world Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who was the supposed "richest person in the world" since 2017, is currently worth an impressive $184 billion: http://www.justjared.com/2021/01/07/...-in-the-world/