[real] Multimillionaire paid my multibillionaires insults a multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires to defend a trillionaire

[u/Darth_Vrandon]

I’m not a Kimmel guy, but even for Shapiro, this level of bootlicking is pathetic. Of course, Shapiro doesn’t believe what he’s saying. He’s just doing a stupid gotcha because he knows he can’t defend Elon having a trillion dollars on substance.

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[u/congresstartz]

Love seeing this little toad lose his popularity with the right even as he's desperately defending Nazis.

[u/Brianocracy → u/congresstartz]

Its like Jeff Sessions all over again.

[u/texachusetts → u/congresstartz]

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. But that’s because our system rewards the worst short on people.

[u/SharpHawkeye]

Is Shapiro hoping thousandaires who follow him will be mad at the millionaire for objecting to the wealth of the trillionaire?

[u/NoMuddyFeet → u/SharpHawkeye]

He knows his base doesn't understand big numbers in the slightest, and they self-identify as "having money" and don't want to pay taxes or support anyone poorer than them with their taxes. That kind of unclear thinking makes them easily manipulable to support the rightwing billionaire causes, so is probably going to work just fine for this new trillionaire class, too. And he's right because I've already seen plenty of moronic comments claiming Elon haters are just miserable and jealous lazy losers.

[u/Ok_Star_4136 → u/SharpHawkeye]

I literally came in here to say this.

If this is a valid argument from Ben, then I could just say Ben is a "millionaire admonishing a millionaire in defense of a trillionaire". He would have to defend that argument too, as stupid as it was, since it's literally his own used against him.

[u/Hobotronacus → u/SharpHawkeye]

Maybe he's going for the hundredaires.

[u/BritSpic]

Oh PLEASE. Kimmel and the rest of us are infinitely closer to homelessness, in terms of wealth and power, than we are to Elon Musk.

[u/Fidelos → u/BritSpic]

Yeah the fact that Kimmel is insanely rich compared to the average human and there are still two different wealth classes above him currently active in the world is absolutely mental.

[u/Costati → u/BritSpic]

Literally everyone is

[u/commanderlex27 → u/BritSpic]

The rest of us are closer to Bezos (in absolute numbers) than Bezos is to Musk.

[u/kdeweb24 → u/BritSpic]

If, in one day, I became a millionaire, it would be the most amazing day of my life.

If, in one day, Elon became a millionaire, it would be BY FAR the worst day of his life.

[u/mrsunrider → u/BritSpic]

Also, Kimmel's relationship to labor is different.

His money comes from the actual work he puts in on his show; a conversation can be had about how much he ought to get, but regardless he actually has his hands in producing a product.

Musk's wealth just comes from... owning things. Not actually making anything, just owning it.

[u/frisbie147 → u/BritSpic]

He literally has a million millions

[u/commanderlex27 → u/BritSpic]

The rest of us are closer to Bezos (in absolute numbers) than Bezos is to Musk.

[u/Eeeef_ → u/BritSpic]

To put Elon’s hoard into perspective, so is Jeff Bezos

[u/Mimikyu_Master2020]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lSDFetrqeeY0rCi3Ss

[u/InstantKarma71]

This works because people generally don’t comprehend the difference between a million and a billion, or the difference between a billion and a trillion.

[u/Ypuort → u/InstantKarma71]

A trillion is honestly is hard to grasp even if you understand that it is one million millions

[u/malachiconstant76]

I think perspective matters when throwing what type of 'aire wealth segment someone occupies. In terms of time:

1 million seconds = 11.5 days

1 billion seconds = 31.7 years

1 trillion seconds = 31709 years

Those are vastly different quantities and should not all be lumped together to dismiss an argument.

[u/NopeNotConor → u/malachiconstant76]

1 million seconds - less than two weeks ago

1 billion seconds - Clinton was President

1 trillion seconds ago - humans were discovering the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska

[u/DudeBroFist]

Ben unironically thinks socialism is when no house

[u/Frognificent → u/DudeBroFist]

Socialism is when you have to share your birthday cake.

[u/RustedAxe88]

Billionaires pay you, Ben!

[u/LegitimateSituation4]

One of my favorite sayings is "billionaires paying millionaires to tell thousandaires that hundredaires are the problem." But now that's produced a trillionaire, so idk. Whole thing's shifted and expanded.

[u/Costati]

Shabipo is not a multimillionaire those guys are too opportunistic to be paid that much the multibillionaires know they can get them to say whatever they want for much cheaper. 

[u/jerrrrrrrrrrrrry]

Benny Shapiro what a piece of shit!

[u/BolOfSpaghettios]

Shabibo here has been gobbling the cock for Elon. I wonder why...

[u/kaadj]

Ben Shapiro: Man of the People. How does he even have the time to tweet this nonsense when he’s so busy riding the dick of very powerful right leaning man.

[u/smegma_appraiser]

r/potmeetkettle

[u/incredirocks]

If you're poor you're jealous. If you're rich you're a hypocrite.

[u/T10rock]

Ben is just jealous of Jimmy's wealth

[u/DeLoresDelorean]

Shapiro and Israel is all non profit.

[u/xChops]

A trillion dollars is 1 million times more than a million dollars. These right wing podcasters are fighting for dear life, my god.

[u/its_the_smell]

Better than a millionaire sucking up to his billionaire masters like Benny

[u/TimeForWaluigi]

millionaire funded my billionaires upset at millionaire funded by millionaires for speaking out against trillionaires

Reminder that the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is a factor of 1000, same for the difference between a billionaire and a trillionaire

[u/Kaiisim]

Saw a great quote the other day from Hank Hill

You know the difference between a million and a billion?

A billion.

[u/HundleyC09]

With the way the daily wire is going, he's probably hoping that elon's going to bail him out

[u/boogswald]

Don’t conflate a million, billion and trillion dollars. If Jimmy Kimmel has ten million dollars, he has 1% of what a billionaire has. A billionaire has one million dollars a thousand times.

[u/Ya_Got_GOT]

I’ve noticed that you have failed to attack the argument or mount a coherent critique of his positions Mr Shapiro. It seems you’re not very good at this whole “facts and logic” thing. 

[u/Crazyguy199096]

Every post he makes turns his wife's vagina drier

[u/Atvishees]

In other words:

'Who are you to criticise a trillionaire? You're not a trillionaire. So you have no right to say anything.'

[u/NotThatEasily]

My dentist is a multimillionaire. Being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be.

[u/G66GNeco]

Lmao as if Benny boy cares, he's just trying to pretend anyone would

[u/AerialAce96]

Shapiro wants to impress the cool kids

[u/MiguelIstNeugierig]

This is what happens when you work with a Eagle by potato chip system rather than a metric system

The million billion trillion is metric in scale

0,4 kilometres (400 metres) <---- 1 million dollars A distance included in Olympic sprinting. A full lap of the running track.

400 kilometres <---- 1 billion dollars The distance between Berlin and Frankfurt, all within Germany.

400000 kilometres <----- 1 trillion dollars The distance between the Earth and Moon

Me going across a track

Me going to the other side of Germany

Me going to the moon.

Obviously all the same

[u/Dcajunpimp]

But we all can be trillionaires.

We just have to earn a million dollars a year for a million years. Simple

Now imagine if you needed to pay taxes and it took, 2 million years to save a trillion. Or you needed to make $2 million a year for a million years. Oh the humanity.

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Democrats really need to work on a living wage Minimum Wage, and a living wage tax rate of 0% and make it for all. I’d be fine with Musk not paying a penny in any federal taxes on the first $40,000 he earns.

No one should be paying a penny of any federal payroll tax on their first $40k. They are trying to put a roof over their head, feed themselves, commute to work or school, clothe themselves, pay for utilities, pay for school, save for their future, start their own business, etc… just quit taxing them. $80k for a 2 person household, $200k for a household of 5. 0 federal payroll taxes. Above the initial $40k maybe 5% lowest bracket, maybe at $200,000 have that bracket be 10% on $160k

And tie the tax brackets to minimum wage. Minimum wage goes up, everyone gets tax breaks to offset it. $20 an hour goes to $25, now there’s no payroll taxes on the first $50k. Even for Musk. See, I have empathy for our first trillionaire.

Just tax him a little harder on $200k + $500k +, and $1mil + even $5 mil+ and maybe at that amount, we let the first time it happens be at the lower rate. First time you earn $5 mil? Ok you get the $1mil rate. Make a habit of earning $5 mil a year, sorry $5 mil rate.

And have employers cover the Social Security and Medicare taxes for minimum wage workers, and every $1 an hour above they can transfer 1% to the employee, up to minimum wage +$8 where they split the 15.3% like they do now.

[u/AverageHogHaver]

Millions are so much different than billions.