He bought the Financial Post for $250m.
He bought the Financial Post for $250m.
$600 m wedding! what are they spending that on, someone saw him coming. She must be signing a pre nip.
Oh not just reconsider but keep it that way.Back to the 90% tax bracket especially on the wealthy.Their greed knows no bounds they make no contributions & they are treasonous.Therefore the playing field must be leveled and established permanently. Still a democracy still capitalism but no free reign
This right here is proof that his recent charitable vow to give away his wealth is bullshit. A decent person would not spend like this and not feel guilt.
gross
Let them eat cake
Imagine what the deposit must have been on the VFW hall!
And the wedding will be performed by the convicted felon and blessed by the President Elon? Possible. Not a good start.
This week, Republicans took away funding for research into childhood cancer cures in order to give Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk MORE money. The country is in a very bad place right now.
That’s equivalent to 3X the funding for pediatric cancer research that his oligarch bro Musk cut out of the CR
It always comes back to the Reagan era. The beginning of the end of America as it was created & the start of corporate greed ruling the country.
She’ll divorce the geezer in a couple of years and end up massively rich…💀
After MacKenzie, I'm sure he's learned about prenups.
SO THE F WHAT!!!!!!
Nuts how much $$$$$
While Amazon workers are striking! Can we all please address an Amazon boycott FFS?! We have limited options lately to show our dissent, this may help.
Just imagine how much good you could do with that money.
Like pay his front line workers.
My exact thought when I read this.
He could cure world hunger but instead chooses to do this. I find it repulsive. No one should be this rich. No one
Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens have little or no independent influence. In other words, the U.S. is an oligarchy: a system of government where a small number of elites rule.
Well, spend your money how you wish. Simpleton me, thinks this a grotesque waste. I can’t help but think his former wife Mekenzi is a far more decent person.
Like to see the prenup on that one
Obscene.
Wow, 600 million for something that won’t even last. Give her five or six years she’ll take the money and run.
She is only there til the next PYT(pretty young thing)
This is disgusting! I can’t even believe that amount of money is being diverted to fund anything so frivolous.
Paid for by forcing peasants to piss in bottles in Amazon vans and refusing to negotiate with its union members.
Aww, absolutely adorable bless you, hope you're well and happy too bless you with peace, love and happiness blessed be ❤️🎄🧚♀️✨️❄️🌈...
those immigrants are the bedrock of our social security system / Corporate welfare. It`s looting
Will half of that contribute to her never ending fillers Botox or whatever the F she does to that purge face? Billionaires are as fake as their faces. 600 M on any party is obscene .
Meanwhile his delivery guys can't unionize or have time for pee breaks...?
Just think. 600 million can solve hundreds of millions in financial straights. Bezos can have a beautiful wedding for 5 million. Someone tell them, please.
Is the orange 🤡 officiating ?
And we were able to build so much of our modern infrastructure, along with schools, libraries, hospitals etc post WWII, 1950s, 1960s and even the early 1970s when we had those high tax rates. America got stuff done and often with products built in America.
This! Spending $600 Million for a weekend wedding is just wow. You know that pre-nup will be tight.
Yeah, $600mil sure could help a multitude of Americans that are struggling but you know....Love.
Please be a blizzard in Aspen that day. Please please
It's actually sad when you think how we all contributed to this and the difference this money could make in society
Thank you. I have myself have left thousands, not hundreds to Amazon coffers. Since 2003, if totaled all if it. Would have made a signifiant payoff to my mortgage. Not all. Just a nice chunk. Fuck this guy.
JFC, $600 million, for a fucking wedding. Billionaires should not exist.
Spending this much money on a wedding is abhorrent when you think of people who can't afford to buy enough food for their family or go bankrupt over medical cost debt 🤬
Another billionaire enjoying record low taxation while the poor and middle class struggle to keep up and fight for rights slowly being taken away by the conspiring republicans holding hands with these uber wealthy.
It’s time we let the ruling elite know which side of the pitchfork has the butter on it…
Its obscene. I truly dont understand having that much money snd not helping humanity more.
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EAT THE RICH
Spending $600 million for a wedding weekend by someone who consistently suppresses his employees and union workers makes me think only of one word – Disgusting ☝️ It’s a slap in the face of anyone working for him.
Jeff Bezos stated on X that this is not true.
A consumption/national sales tax would help as well. Est. a tax credit for W2 earners < $100K/yr to offset impact but raise $ from wealthy spenders, criminals, tax cheats, illegals, visitors etc. We're only industrialized country without one. Dumb.
Betcha this time he'll have a prenup.
That’s pretty sick, Spend that much money, These billionaires could help humanity in ways that could no one else can, Guess it isn’t going to change until there’s a revolution & The American People take it to the streets,
Now think of all the people he will have to hire to pull off such a sprawling gala. His money is going precisely where it should go.
That’s obscene amount of money to spend on a wedding, Tells a very telling story of just how fucking shallow & Stupid Bezos is,
Plot Twist: The wedding is sponsored by Amazon and is a complete tax write off!
$600 million on a wedding that is absolutely gross.
Bezos denies this story regarding his pending nuptials to Lauren Sanchez has any merit.
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Fucking ridiculous amount for a wedding.
Kindle Unlimited brings me so much joy. I must now cancel it because fuck this guy.
A $600M wedding is obscene.
YES! What kind of a dick does this while people are hungry and homeless? No wonder his first wife ditched this a$$hole.
I’m sure trumps cabinet is invited along with the kardashians🙄
And unverified. The story comes from an “anonymous source” reported by the New York Post.
At least it is trickling down in Las Vegas, NE, and not sitting idle in an anonymous account in some tropical island 😉
We need to tax bad taste
We're living through another Gilded Age. Shit is wild.
And I am sure his accountants found a way to write it off from his taxes.
Obscene.
In short, Reagan was and still is the root of all evil in America. Trump is just a natural extension of all the shit the GOP has tried to feed the American public for the past 40 years. Its decline as a party can be traced back to him.
Reagan fundamentally changed the game by making Wall St divudends the primary motive for America. There was a time when employees were considered an asset and not a liability because of their impact on the balance sheet.
There has always been a tension between businesses and their employees. That's why there are unions. But Reagan went out of his way to break the unions to give the power back to the owners.
That. And so much more. Wonder who his sponsors were? By name?
Newt Gingrich was a big headache and pushed through a lot of Reagan's garbage.
Thanks.
Off hand, I don't recall. I'd have to go back and dig through. I do remember that nearly all the GOP jumped on the band wagon. A lot like how they're nearly all MAGAts now.
Neoliberalism (laissez-faire trickle-down) really exploded under Reagan & Thatcher. They created the suspicion that the Fed Gov’t is bad for us & it has no money to help. Only capitalists & markets can “save” us. Total BS. Nothing could be further from the truth
Yes they did, and we've never been able to gain the trust back. Once it's gone, it's nearly impossible to re-establish.
Yep, this.
And Reagan also saying that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I"m from the Government and I'm here to help." Lots of idiots think this is the height of brilliance. Add Milton Friedman to the mix and now we've got chaos-kakistocracy
Actually, Kudlow is worse than Friedman but Friedman had more influence. They both suck.
Please, don't mention Friedman. He was the very worst!
Truth.
It started well before this, it started when the oligarchs, who run the military industrial complex decided that making money off war was worth more then President JFK’s life, and had him assassinated
Nope, that's not when it started. The military industrial complex is a whole other issue.
You are wrong, the amount of money they make off of war is astounding, and a grift off of the American taxpayer with their bloated budgets that they can’t account for the money that is given
That may be true but the wealthy still had a 70% tax bracket which means the wealth was distributed more equally. There was considerable wealth but it was when the tax bracket for the wealthy in 1981 was cut from 70% to 50% and then again in 1986 from 50% to 28% that the shift really happened
The 90% tax bracket for e richest ended in 1963, the same year they killed Kennedy…so yeah it started when the oligarchs put the eir puppet LBJ in power
Stop arguing, you're going to lose this one.
90% tax bracket > 70% tax bracket, simple math.
Go away little girl. You really don't know what you're talking about.
Says the ignorant one who doesn’t understand history…
With all of Reagan's hammering away at the government as being bloated, useless and corrupt that we also started to see an erosion of trust for the government and it's ability to serve people. Prior to Reagan, the majority of American's trusted the government and felt it served their best interests.
It was during Reagan's administration and his attacks on taxes and big government that we started to see a decline of the middle class and a shift in wealth from a more equal distribution across Americans to a huge accumulation towards the already wealthy. 2/
You have Reagan to thank for that. It was his administration that touted supply-side economics better known as "trickle-down". There is ample evidence that trickle-down is horseshit but it's what the GOP continues to use to justify big tax breaks for the wealthy. 1/
Sorry but have to call BS on 600m … 6m maybe … but do agree with the point being made
Puke 🤮
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More than enough to cover the pediatric cancer research the criminal Republicans cut out of the budget, right?
The world isn’t going to hell.. it is HELL. This pathetic show of vulgar waste and nauseating arrogance should ignite an anger in the soul. While people suffer and die we celebrate this unbridled greed and applaud these people
Corporate media, run by billionaires, pays their millionaire on-air sellouts to promote the greedy rich fuck billionaires as something people should aspire to Then, they show “feel good” stories of kids collecting clothes for the poor Never a word about taxing the greedy rich owners
Those stories aren’t generating 💰. They need tabloid type sensationalism that the mainstream salivates over to generate 💰. The corporate media is nothing but shit stirrers. There is very little news just shit
How do people spend this kind of money on themselves? If I mistakenly let the water run needlessly while brushing my teeth, I feel guilty
Same here. I agree
Psychopaths feel limited guilt, or none at all.
Good. Then soon she can take away another chunk of his fortune.
Pennies
Jeff and Lauren, please fuck all the way off.
I think it's fine for rich entrepreneurs to earn and spend a lot of money. But they should also make sure that their employees are paid enough and not just a pittance !!
No one earns that much money; he doesn't work a million times harder than everyone else. He just exploits the institutions to pocket most of the value produced by the labor of millions of other people.
You're absolutely right, but you'll never be able to prevent that. As far as I'm concerned, they can swim in their pride, but they should fulfill their duty of care for their employees and pay them properly! After all, the employees contribute to their millions through their work.
We shouldn't give up on preventing that. The US, for instance, used to have more reasonable upper marginal tax rates, which clawed back more of what the owners stole. Employees certainly need better pay and working conditions, but we can also limit how insanely rich the owners get.
Du hast absolut recht, aber das wird man nie verhindern können. Meinetwegen können sie auch in ihrem Reuchtum schwimmen, aber sie sollten der Fürsorgepflicht für ihre Mitarbeiter nachkommen und sie anständig bezahlen! Schliesslich tragen die Mitarbeiter durch ihre Arbeit zu ihren Millionen bei.
Wir sollten nicht aufgeben, dies zu verhindern. In den USA beispielsweise gab es früher vernünftigere obere Grenzsteuersätze, die den Eigentümern mehr von dem zurückholten, was sie gestohlen hatten.
Arbeitnehmer brauchen sicherlich bessere Löhne und Arbeitsbedingungen, aber wir können auch begrenzen, wie unglaublich reich Eigentümer werden.
$600 Million? Cheap bastard. Is he trying to skimp? I don’t know how they can make this work. This is obscene. How about spend $100M and give $500M to charity.
Bring it back
And the 600Mis just what he’s spending on her plastic surgery upgrades.
Then in a few years she will get a great divorce settlement😁😁😁😁 They love money more than bald guys😁😁
I doubt anyone ever paid 90%, if that is even correct. The code back then had a zillion loopholes, exceptions and credits that were eliminated when the code was simplified.
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How about this. Fuck Bezos. We don’t give a shit about him or his wedding.
Poor billionaires youtube.com/shorts/G606h...
Aww look at her, she is just sooo in love with him 🤦♂️
It's shit like this that inspired the French revolution.
Time to eat the rich!!
Billionaires need to be abolished.
In those days the richest 1% only paid around 42% because they had even more tax right offs then than now. Just like now the people getting hit the hardest with taxes are smaller businesses not the super wealthy.
That’s more than they are paying now.
This is an example of why too much wealth becomes immoral.
If you can’t have a “LAVISH”wedding for an even Million then there’s something wrong with u
Nothing to see here, just more billionaire largesse.
Hopefully he’s throwing all that wealth spend, spend, spending into the local economy
Are the rich so thin because they’re trying to make themselves less appetizing? Like, ‘Oh no, you don’t want to eat me, I’m just skin and bone and Botox and oppressive disinterest’
Americans throw out a lot of their food...
$599M is needed for security
My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. That darn DeJoy.
He claims it's a fake story. I wonder if he's just afraid of protesters?
He's afraid of all the Luigis.
I wondered that, too, and if they were trying to keep it private-ish.
Gross just absolutely disgusting in the most self indulgent, let em cake kinda way
This asshole went on a space vacation while COVID was spreading through his warehouses.
That can’t be right. If someone spends $600m on a wedding they should be locked up for a crime against humanity.
And that 90% tax bracket built the American middle class!
Trash
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Kind of makes people really aware how small your dick actually is have to spend $600 million dollars to get a woman to marry you seriously?
Disgusting! Elope and save lives with that money.
This is disgraceful… especially coming from someone who goes to great lengths to avoid paying taxes… dude doesn’t want to fund the roads he’s driven on… or the air traffic controllers that guides his jet… some people are trash. Amazon subscriptions cancelled. GFY Jeff…
La señorita Sánchez is going to take him to the cleaners. Buena suerte Lauren!
Well after a certain event horizon a 10,000 dollar plate of asparagus is till a 6.00 plate of asperagus.
600 MILLION $DOLLARS wasted on a stupid show-off wedding when it could have gone to worthy charities! The rich do nothing but roll around in their nauseating pompous riches like pigs in slop!! They make me sick!🤮 Caption: “Gold digger marries billionaire for his money in exchange for fresh meat!”
His first wife (Makenzie Scott) is such a generous person. Giving large sums of her divorce settlement money to charitable causes. Makes you wonder how they ever got together.
That’s for sure!
She is an angel. I am amazed at how much $ she gives.
Would it have been better if he had also donated $600m to worthy charities? I don't know if it would have. IMO, $600m is a lot to spend on a party. Don't know how i'd spend $1m on a party. Bet you could have the party on a flying 747 and still have budget to spare.
It ain't right.
Actually those money will not disappear, they will go to smaller companies and subcontractors. Many people will get salaries because of that weddng.
This is just obscene.
So, you can afford a 600 million dollar wedding but your workers are on strike? I’m assuming your wedding means fiancé is protected right? Glad I deleted your app.
How do you even possible spend 600 million on a wedding?!?
That’s what I was thinking? Like how is that possible?
He needs a LOT of security.
Exactly .. did he buy the hotel. 🙄🙄🙄
Since I was young, my Dream wedding always had Metallica playing at it. Even That would be unlikely to cost $600 Million!!! 🙄
Metallica at a wedding!
Hell yeah! 🤘
Just remembered - was drivin in the car w an ex-bf. We'd moved in together after a month dating (always a mistake). Metallica came on the radio + He Turned It Down! I was Shocked! Like No honey - u don't turn Metallica down, U turn them UP!! I Knew right then we weren't gonna last! We didn't. 🤷♀️😅
Here is the essential difference between Liberal/Democrats and MAGA-Republicans: We see $600 Million and examine all the ways the money could be used to help people. MAGA sees ostentatious vulgarity.
trump charges $100 mil for the full evening
He bought Aspen??
If you have 2000 guests, that is 300,000$ per guests. If they are around for 7 days, that is 42,000$/day/guests! It is absolutely insane?
2000 people sounds like a nightmare rather than a celebration 😫
Half of this is legal fees on the prenup.
Ah, makes sense! And likely the prenup itself?
How, just how! Is he buying Aspen?
My question, too. Even assuming everything is done for them at TOP expense, still how? Are they buying, not renting, a castle in France as the venue??
And virtually no one paid it, by recategorizing their assets and income. Same as they do today.
Smaller businesses with fewer right offs paid it. Just like today.
Look at these rich men with money!! They are not attractive in no way and look at the women they have😂we all know money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you temporary love and elections if you want them
tbh, I did accidentally read the last sentence as " love and erections" - must be Freudian I guess. But it might just be correct in old man Bezos's case.
COMPLETELY MISREADING THE MOOD AND THE ROOM!!!!!
That's a lotta pigs in a blanket 🤭
Yup I can timber them breaking up Bell telephone. Monopolies big no no. Our SCOTUS has been corrupted by corporations awhile now.
It’s just disgusting how much money these people throw around. If he was an employee at his place? I’m betting she wouldn’t give his mug the time of day.
Sanchez? Sorry, she got's to go back to wherever she came from.
It was Reagan. You can trace almost every bad idea that has crippled the US today, back to Reagan.
Same in the UK but we had the evil witch Thatcher and her disciples Major, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak and now Keir Starmer
“Trickle down”. Who the fuxk was happy vote for a “trickle”. Unreal
Piss down is more accurate
Absolutely! 💯 percent!
Disgusting. I despise tone deaf rich people.
Just think how that money could help multiple community food banks or homeless shelters? Misguided filthy-rich people. Such a disgrace!
And he still isn't cool. You just can't buy cool.🥴
When Regan started with trickle down economics in his first term. The income tax on millionaires was at 78%. By the end of his second term, the income tax on millionaires had dropped to 28%. Tell me, how much money trickled down to working people?
ZERO. AND TGEIR TAX RATES WENT UP.
And it was Reagan who started taxing Social Security
And it was Reagan who abolished the Fairness Doctrine
And it just so happened, the newly formed Heritage Foundation advised Reagan from the beginning of his term. Forty-five years later, we get project 2025, their final chapter towards Republican autocracy.
Also, under Reagan Federal funding for mental health evaporated
I knew Reagan did a lot of terrible things like the some of above examples, plus he mismanaged and stigmatized AIDS epidemic causing needless death and suffering. But when his record is listed out like this, I’m surprised we held on to our Democracy through his presidency.
I hope he is burning in hell.
Same!
I still can't stand that man. I remember the crap he did while governor in California 🤬🤬
And Reagan "Democrats" are the modern day MAGA. America has always struggled with its demons, but too many have embraced the cruelty and insanity, and indeed wrapped it in a flag while they carry a cross.
They LIE
The caterer of that wedding is making a killing.
Imagine the good you could do with 600 million. Not these psychos though !!!!
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How much of that is going for vaginal reconstruction?
$600 million would have funded the pediatric cancer research bill and 9-11 bill. What are we even doing here? Eat the rich.
His workers are striking for better pay. Spending half a billion on a wedding kinda feels like a middle finger.
Yeah he’s an obscene man. But he can’t take it with him…and she doesn’t look like she’s a long term keeper either…
you got that right!!!
Not only is a middle finger to his workers....he basically pulled down his pants and expects his workers and others to kiss his@$$. Disgusting.
I would say they are getting married before Jan 1 as a tax deduction but he never pays taxes anyway. I wish them all they deserve and more.
I wish them enough. It’s the only thing they are missing.
He makes me sick.
Disgusting, how does one live with themselves knowing that they could save lives and instead throw a lavish wedding. 🤢🤮
How do you spend $600 million on a weekend wedding? Are the guests going to go skiing on actual mountains of cocaine?
My definition of obscenity.
Wonder what she sees in him 🤔 😄
And vice versa. She's a low life.
What are the odds her dress will barely cover her fake boobs?
They most certainly will be uncovered. As usual.
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Man, she looks like a real winner…NOT!! I’ll take bets on how long this will last. 1,2,or 3 years tops!One of the richest men in the world and he settles for this woman! Since he’s becoming one of Drumpf’s besties, I wonder if he checked her immigration status.Love is definitely blind!🤣😂 Just saying
I’m having my doubts but this is a powerful photo. Six hundred million?
This is the “trickle down” they’ve been trying to feed people for years. This man drops that amount without blinking since he makes more in interest than people living paycheck to paycheck will see their entire lifetime.
You know who got rid of that law? The rich politicians.
This is fucking obscene.
Apparently Bezos is denying it.
Link: nypost.com/2024/12/21/e...
Utterly obscene.
I have been criticized for saying we need a wealth tax. One greedy woman said she felt sorry for me and then blocked me. But has that once Judge Louis Brandeis said, "you can have Democracy or you can have concentrated wealth but not both." I would much rather have Democracy!
We need a wealth tax! But with the oligarchy firmly in place, it won’t happen in the next four years
It is true that history is best told by people who experienced it. Today you really can't trust what you hear from the news media & unless it is the weather report.
I used to write histories of houses in New Orleans and their many owners to better understand a neighborhood and, essentially the city. Fascinating perspective!
No, it would take a revolution for that to happen. This began in the Reagan Administration when the highest tax rate was slashed. That allowed the wealthiest people to become dangerously rich due to compounding interest. Other contributing factors, the carried interest, dividends and capital gains.
Obscene
“So Lauren, what first attracted you to the multi billionaire Jeff Bezos?”….
That's a disgusting way to flaunt one's wealth. I really wish I didn't rely on his company so much.
I no longer purchase from Amazon. I left a month ago. I feel like I'm doing something to resist the oligarchy. If millions of us left Amazon it would hurt Bezos. He's a Traitor to our democracy.
Just stop buying shit from Amazon. Say you want something that's for sale. Tell Duck,duck,go. Look at all the options. Ignore the Bezos one, I've been doing it for yeeeeears, it's liberating!
Many citizens of the US rely on Amazon 2 deliver their medication to them because no one else will bring it when they live 40 miles from a city. Some people are disabled & can't drive. Others are caregivers who can't go driving around 2 several stores. This is not a pitch 4 Amazon, it's just facts.
Lots of places online sells meds and stuff, I would know. I haven't bought a thing from Amazon in 6+ years and have gotten absolutely everything under the sun, including prescriptions.
That's great for you. It's just not possible for everyone.
Until you try, you can't say that. I ditched amazon when I was working 3 or 4 jobs and struggling to pay rent, with unreliable transportation I needed for my low paying driving jobs
You're right, but I'm guessing that you are younger and have the physical energy to hustle like you did to do this. So many people in this country are going through things like depression that to set up multiple accounts with different places is too much for them.
I bet Amazon workers are depressed af. I also stopped eating chocolate until I found one that didn't use slaves, because it's fucked up the people who pick it, don't even know what it tastes like. I guess if shit is important to ya, you'll follow through with it, even if it's inconvenient.
CVS delivers.
Yes, I know. However, if residents in rural areas don't have CVS or Walgreens what other option is open to them? Some small towns may only have a pharmacy that is not a name brand & they don't have the capacity to deliver meds to someone who lives 40 or 50 miles away.
It's okay. I am employed by the company so I rely on it for everything. If everyone boycotted I would lose my job, and at my age (in my 60's), it would be very difficult to find another one. It sucks to support billionaires, but this is where we are.
It’s gross. Just think of all the people he could help and he chooses this instead.
Actually Target has a lot of goods that Amazon does. I either order from Target now, shop from local merchants, or order directly from the merchant. #BoycottAmazon
A lot depends on where you live. If you're in the middle of nowhere, Amazon is pretty much a necessity.
I relieved myself of everything to do with him! It’s possible.
Actually it is not. I am sure there are a lot of services that you use that use Amazon’s cloud services. Unless you are not using the internet.
You’re very likely right.
And yes depressing as f.
Yeah it’s not possible, everything uses AWS
same girl same.
I cut the cord with Bezos pretty easily. I shop locally, I order direct from suppliers and pay for shipping. It keeps me frugal. As far as watching shows, you don’t need Prime. Plenty of options. It may not be as exciting but you can sleep at night knowing you’re not supplementing his wealth
Unfortunately I can't. I live so rural our cable company doesn't even offer cable TV, just internet. I use Prime for viewing.
There's also YouTube TV. You just need internet and a smart TV. Samsung TVs come with built in channels, too.
Hulu live
Sling, YouTube, Hulu. Check around. You may miss some things at the beginning but you won’t even notice after a while.
ENOUGH! Stop policing my purchasing choices.
City people don't understand the challenges rural people face trying to find basic needs ans services.
This is true. A lifelong suburbanite of major cities, it wasn't until I relocated to a rural area in my late 60s that I really appreciated the challenges, exacerbated by the likes of Bezos and big box stores. Local shopping is nonexistent. Phone & internet are of poor quality & twice as expensive 👇
as in large cities & suburbia. There is no public transportation. Poor access to healthcare as well. Low pay. So why did I move here? It's as close as I could afford to be near my family (still over a 2 hr drive).
Sounds like we need a TVA type of action for rural areas again.
Nah, Youtube (ironically enough) has Youtube TV, and various other channels have their own streaming platforms. It takes some research, but it's possible. And, if all else fails, pirating is also an option (ahem 😊).
there's other reasons, like having to go over a pass at 5000 feet in winter to get to a major shopping center 1.5 hours away
I don’t have cable, just internet and use Netflix, Hulu, Max, and YouTube… no Prime. I only pay for Netflix cause I share the others with rich friends who have it. Often just watch locally what I can get on antenna.
We can't pull in anything via antenna where we live in New Mexico. Back in the old days, you could pull in Albuquerque and El Paso.
That’s a shame. It’s harder here in CT because mountains. In New Orleans we could get stations 2 hours distant.
I dropped those streaming services when they started recycling GARBAGE programming and cancelled popular programming
I rarely buy through Amazon.
Don’t. There are options.
Right. Come on young entrepreneurs get creative.
It boils down to wants v needs. How much is freedom worth? YouTube has all one needs as do good ol fashioned libraries- tons of movies and series and books.
Any way you can access the websites of the brands you buy on Amazon? Amazon is just a consolidator. Very few items on there are solely their's. 🤔
I do that if possible. I order a lot for my business. It's very difficult to find things separately
I boycotted amazon one year, and shopped for things direct or through other websites and 5 items still came via amazon!
That happened to me too.
I don’t use his company at all.
Nobody NEEDS Amazon. I have t used it in a long time.
Yes, I do. If I didn't need to, I wouldn't
Same
I’m sorry to hear that I don’t mean to judge. The more people that can stop using Amazon, the better.
I have been finding alternatives. Target and pet friendly for flea meds. I am only using it for prime to watch football then I’m canceling it.
Trump and his porn star wife will be there with 2nd nazi Elon.
BOYCOTT CNN Start at 12:01 am January 19th and continue until 11:59 pm January 20. Gives people enough time in advance of inauguration to get comfortable with new reality. Welker interview insulted the intelligence of us all by normalizing a felon. Welker replayed by CNN ad nauseum.
That’s an absurd extravagance for a meet-up of viagra and silicone. 😀😀
The richer you get, the more expensive happiness becomes.
It’s outrageous and his workers are on strike
One thing to keep in mind anytime someone has a wedding with an obscene price tag: with an event that large, many people are hired for this event - decorators and companies that supply and manufacture those decorations; ...
... caterers, waiters, food supply companies; tailors, seamtresses, textile manufacturers; photographers, florists, flower farms, etc. For all it's perceived faults, it does disperse a lot of money into the economy. All of those people need to work to feed their families too.
Who thinks he invites Trump ?
Trump will bring the tic tacs.
does she have papers?
Utterly disgusting
Dang, 600 million.
Indeed
no shit!!!!! and we had free public universities, built schools, roads, bridges, space programs and didn't have people living in tents on the street.
Disgusting to spend that kind of money for a wedding. His ex- wife gives her money to charities.
Imagine needing a 600m wedding to feel like a real live boy
This is insane it is time to bring the 90% tax rate back these folks have no sense of social responsibility and totally driven by the huge egos and greed.
Bezos is such a piece of garbage. His Amazon employees can hardly make their ends meet and had to walk off the job for better working conditions. Meanwhile this clown has been running around the world with the women he cheated on his ex wife with. What a 🤡
It used to be patriotic to pay your taxes. Now it’s “patriotic” to elect a felon that surrounds themselves with billionaires 🤦🏽♂️🤡
My dad was a republican and an accountant and used to say just that!
600 million?
insane
That can’t be right. How can you possibly spend that much on a wedding? If this is true then we need to bring back the taxing rates from the 50’s, when America was supposedly “Great.”
This couple actually spent something like that and the celebrations were seven months all together amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...
With this amount he could give every Amazon employee a $391 holiday bonus. He could do both of these things and it’d only cost 0.0005% of his net worth. In comparison to most of us this is like going to the store and grabbing a candy bar for a dollar to him. It’s an insane amount of wealth to hoard.
Put me in for $100 for under 2 years, a NDA as part of the separation terms, & a Lifetime movie with a disclaimer that the characters aren't based on actual people.
There should be a 90% tax bracket, but Bezos wedding did not cost 600 million.
Imagine she has to sleep with that thing to get her allowance.
Everybody has a job.
Doggy style so she don't have to look at his face or kiss him.
It's like the old joke. M: Would you sleep w/me for a $1 Billion? F: Sure. M: Would you sleep w/me for a $20? F: What do you think I am? M: We've already determined that; now we're just negotiating over the price.
lol
But he can't pay his workers?
An all timer….
This. Is. Deplorable.
Hard for me to wrap my head around how one can spend 600mil on a wedding?
Uh… not time to reconsider It’s time to reconstruct it
Someday he'll split her! Maybe I'm wrong! The man lacks love! Love $$$$!
How is it even possible to spend that much on a wedding?
What a ridiculous waste of money.
Show-off.
Imagine how many food banks you could have helped out, or how many tiny home villages you could've built. She's obviously as selfish and narcissistic as he is.
truth!!!
It's something Taylor Swift does every tour. And she treats her employees fairly.
He could wipe out the medical debt of hundreds of families for what he’ll spend on appetizers.
Ewww. So gross
And Republicans wanted $190 million cut from the budget for cancer research for children. Priorities guys, priorities.
Share that prenuptial when you get it.
Bezos is all about phallic rockets and getting wealthier. Billionaires should be taxed normally up to 500 million. After that it’s a 90% tax because no single person needs much more. Start it out for a 5 year run to see how it works. We will need government for the rise of AI.
40 years ago. When Reagan set a new course for Republican politics. Creating the environment that got us to where we are today. Eroding our country 1 foundation block at a time. Now we have imploded our country. Republicans have achieved their Single Party rule over America.
Seems like that was the start of the downfall
He got his real life barbie doll.