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White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs
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Insane that the rich hate taxes so much, that they're willing to put literal narcissist criminal idiots in charge thinking "I can definitely control and predict this guy's behavior and surely that will be good for my business rather than just not having a 37th yacht and paying taxes and making the world an objectively better place not only for the other 7 billion inhabitants but probably more stable for my own interests as well."
If we weren't all being tossed into the furnace with them, it would be something I'd never stop laughing at.
That level of greed is mental illness. A perpetual state of fear of losing what you have.
You have more than you can ever spend, ever, and you're in constant fear that someone will take it from you. Because that's would you do.
That's the crazy part, unless they're "outlawed" billionaires should try and improve people's lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It's hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.
They truly believe in the Social Darwinist belief that no one is truly compassionate, empathetic, or altruistic. It's just an act to gain attention, or an advantage.
They literally can't understand it, and think it's a stupid delusion. Their narcissism can't comprehend that anyone would do anything without wanting something in return. And those who don't believe that are stupid, and deserve to be exploited.
Because winners are winners, and losers and losers. It's the natural order. EVERYONE is looking to take what's yours, and will abuse, rob, and kill you if they can. Because that's what they would do.
And then there's the competition with other psychopaths in their peer group...
UPS just laid off 20K workers on the expectation that Amazon deliveries will be way down.
Container ships are down 60%. More than any month during the pandemic.
Trump is imploding the entire economy.
Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
They could work to remove the destitution and desperation of working people. But if their workers weren't in such dire straits, then they wouldn't have so much power over them. Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance also have more time to pursue unionization and other political activities. Even if improving the lives of the people would objectively increase the wealth of the ultra-rich, it would still decrease their power. And ultimately, the only reason people ever obtain that level of wealth is because they desire power more than anything else. People who aren't power-hungry monsters cash out and retire early long before they reach billionaire status.
Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance are unlikely to pursue unions. That's the stuff unions are trying to achieve.