• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Wow.

    What an utter piece of human garbage who’s doing what he can at the end of his privileged life to harm others.

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    He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these “too much money” guys?

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      They have severe OCD Hoarding Disorder, and they have a serious compulsion to hoard money, even when they have far more than they or their descendents can ever spend.

      If this was someone hoarding anything else at that level, cats, rusty cars, newspapers, junk, etc., the government would step in, remove their treasure, and get that person the mental help they require. We should do the same with Financial Hoarders - detain them and get them the mental health care they require, and remove their hoard that is making life difficult for their neighbors. If they were hoarding cats, we’d put them up for adoption, so their financial hoard should be redistributed to the citizens.

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      12 hours ago

      “a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share.”

      Fixed the headline

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    Meh. This is Oregon. That kind of money may get 1 or 2 more republicans in the legislature. Probably moderate republicans even. But it isn’t going to change much for the state. I don’t happen to buy anything Nike anyway. But overall, we got bigger fish to fry right now.

  • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Psssttt…Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc…

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      8 hours ago

      Imagine what these replica brands could achieve if they made their own stuff and people weren’t married to the brands

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    14 hours ago

    Again

    Prohibit billionaires

    Cap all netwoths at 10-20 million dollars per person, tops.

    Companies should not be worth more than 1 billion dollars, cap it.

    Anything over that has automatically 100% go to taxes

    Well end up with -instead of one trillion dollar compant- tens of thousands of centillion dollar worth companies, you know, those that aren’t too big to fail and that won’t need bailouts

    Well end up with a government that gets so much tax income that it can afford free education, free healthcare, hell, UBI even.

    Noone will be super rich and or powerful ever again, no one will be able to usurp all resources for themselves.

    Humanity spent 2000 years on perfecting the “0.1% must get as Uber rich as possible” and we got it down to an art to concentrate as much wealth as possible with as little people as possible. It is NOT normal, it is NOT acceptable, ajf it has to stop NOW! It’s destroying our world, literally, as these assholes are the main drivers behind climate change.

    Here I am making sure to use as little water as possible and all of my life long work gets thrown into he garbage because miss multimillionaire needs to do grocery shopping with her fucking private jet.

    While on this bandwagon, ban all private jets, even for politicians. Maybe maybe we can keep a few as a sort of air ambulance or something z that should be fine, but all the rest, BAN IT. Same for theega yachts, outright world wide ban.

    It is bizarre to me that most people just act as if all this is perfectly fine and acceptable. There is no right, no reason why anyone should have a higher net worth than (say) 10 million, so why do we allow this to happen in the first place?

    Haven’t we learned anything?

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    19 hours ago

    This is exactly why we shouldn’t have billionaires. It’s literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what’s left but to spend it on manipulating other people.

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    23 hours ago

    After the recent election? You can kiss that fucking money goodbye. Have fun losing big.

  • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I resolved never to buy or wear Nike back in the late 90s. The companies practices are abominable but I also hated the culture of conspicuous consumption and the way people believed it gave them license to shit on others for not turning themselves into a walking ad. I grew up poor, so I know the feeling of being made to feel less-than because I got Pro Wings on instead of Jordans.

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      I know you said pro wings what are there any other brands you recommend? Is adidas any better? Been putting off buying new sneakers since Isreals genocide because every brand I looked at seemed to have some sort of ties.

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      23 hours ago

      How has that worked out, watching Nike grow and prosper despite everything shitty they do?