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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump offered himself to oil executives for a billion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hasn't Putin already paid $500 million for that fossil?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How come you can buy fossils?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Someone discovered it on private land.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That was my first thought.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought Supreme Court Justice Thomas was the most expensive fossil ever sold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

From what I hear he was actually rather inexpensive. If I was in his place I'd be insulted by the price he gets.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Imagine having enough money to be able to waste it on a dinosaur skeleton for no reason other than to fucking have it. And it doesn't even make a difference in your net worth. This kind of shit makes me so damn depressed. I mean more than I already am.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

He earned none of that money. It should rightfully be forcefully removed and given back to all the small businesses he fucked hard in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Did he use a bedpost as the bidding paddle?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most Expensive Fossil Ever Sold

That's just because presidential campaign backers usually like to keep quiet about their contributions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oof size big

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to make this man eat my hat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I want to make this man shit your hat.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck. Sotheby's.

Selling things that aren't theirs since 1744.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You do realize that the owners of the things they sell are the ones who commission then to sell their things for them, right?

Anyway, the problem isn't auction houses, it's the ultra-wealthy driving prices of the things they desire to insane levels. And the reason it's a problem is because those prices are totally artificial and grossly inflated, solely for said ultra-wealthy to hide their wealth in the artificially expensive things they buy and avoid paying taxes that would benefit you and me and the whole of society.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Only thirty cents a year.

Ken Griffin basically stole that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The Sotheby's auction video: https://youtu.be/3dHae6bQ7PA