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The actual number is 0.000021, or 0.0021%. If you make $50,000 a year, 0.000021 is just $1.05. Bezos spending $5 million on a ring has the same effect on his net wealth as our 50k per year guy spending $1.05 on a wedding ring.
Cheap fucker didn't even come close to spending two months salary on his big love.
Quickest, simplest fix would be to treat borrowing against unrealized capital gains as income for tax purposes.
The system as it is cannot continue this way. Something must break.
Hoping it will be the necks of the wealthy, confident it will be sonething bigger and more precious.
It will. But it will disproportionately affect the poor.
Can I suggest the necks of all billionaires?
Fingers crossed, but im not optimistic that will be the first thing.
Nothing will change until the rich and rightwingers are all killed
Hey. They dont all need to be killed.
Lots of them are old as fuck or prone to doing stupid shit. They could just die passively. Heart attacks from too much old. Contaminated blood boy. Unforseeable accident while sunning his balls in the bed of his cybertruck while it's in full self driving. Bad (drunken) load on the gun he has literally never cleaned because cleaning is gay.
Net worth is two words.
What does Bernie mean by real tax rate? How is he calculating that 1.1%
I don't understand how more people aren't upset by this. I guess that's why they installed Trump, to keep us mad about everything else...
Some people live under the delusion that they'll become billionaires someday. They project themselves that far ahead. Oblivious.
As bad as things are, most Americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. It looks like that 60% figure comes from a single survey from an online banking company in 2023. The Fed reports the majority of US adults have had at least 3 months of emergency savings every year since 2018.
Dam that's an expensive doorbell
TCP/IP? IPX? Arcnet? Token ring?
When I got married I spent like $700
Wait, you guys are getting married?
You guys are spending money not to survive?
Network?
I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Dang thanks! Spell correct bitting me hard
Bitting?
Net worth*
Oh, I get it. Your network is your net worth.
I thought that the rule was supposed to be two months income.
I guess Jeff doesn't really love his new wife.
jeffery is not capable of human emotions like love and empathy
Jesus Christ. Two months' income is so insane. I'd be pissed if my boyfriend bought me a ring that expensive.
Two months is what DeBeirs, the assholes who hold a monopoly on diamonds, arbitrarily told people to spend on a diamond.
Ultimately it should be what makes both parties happy.
My partner and i bought our own rings. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Originally in the they said it was one months' salary. They then upped it two months. And they then upped it Three months
You can also see in the article that they hoard about 60% of the world's diamonds. De Beers is a corrupt company sitting on top of a corrupt system built on blood and death.
When I still loved her, I got my ex an engagement that was about two days salary tbh. She had many faults, but that's about the only thing she never gave me shit for.
you might not mind too much if you lived in a time when women didn't have their own bank accounts or source of income not controlled by their husbands. it was actually a decent rule when it was the only thing of real value you truly owned and could sell if you needed to gtfo of an abusive relationship or give you a bit of breathing room if you were widowed suddenly (and your husband's family decided not to take care of you once he was gone).
but yes, now a days is definitely overkill.
Like abused wives can easily escape and do their life without repercussions. It isn't a rule to favor abused wives.
My ass was confused there's a different category for wedding rings that has this generally insane pricing. There are a lot of other ways to show a partner they are special. Like a memorable trip for two somewhere nice can go well under that.
Like a memorable trip for two somewhere nice
This 1,000,000x time more than some expensive piece of metal and rock
Damn, her ring is a hundred times less than their ride?
If I do the math with my five hundred dollar ranger that’s about a ring pop.