Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.
McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life…. But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off
Some also important context (this is June 2021, after her second round of grants was announced), as well:
[image description: tweet from Dan Price, the Seattle business owner who doesn’t take a massive salary and pays everybody at his company really well: “Two years ago, she had $36 billion. Since then, she has donated $8 billion - more than anyone in the world. She is now worth $60 billion. I think people struggle to understand just how fast wealth accumulates for the super-rich. She literally can’t give it away fast enough.”.]
She’s trying to singlehandedly redistribute the wealth she took back from Jeff Bezos and is failing at it because the economy is built so that wealth travels from the bottom, accumulates at the top, and then stays there. She literally cannot give her money away fast enough.
Think about this. This is our current capitalist economy at work. It is working as intended and designed by those who benefit from it.
Her story is incredibly revealing of how and where the system is failing.
It also means that we can, indeed, tax the hell out of billionaires and they will not suffer at all.
I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
I remember when I was taking my first tax class in college, my professor had a section specifically on why it sucks extra to be single. Memories, memories, haha
You know it’s been quite a while that I took my business law class, but there was a legal defense that I remember learning about called, doctrine of avoidable consequences, which prevents a person from recovering damages that could have been avoided through reasonable efforts.
For 13 years, OP chose to work as a part-time worker at a grocery store for an average annual raise of $0.05.
Obviously, OP isn’t trying to take their employer to court or anything to recover damages, but dang, could they have made a reasonable effort to avoid these consequences. Like this is borderline negligence for their own well-being haha
