Bad move. He should be saving that for the billionaire tax. 🤭
Meanwhile, Nvidia co-founder and unlikely working class hero Jensen Huang says he’s “perfectly fine” paying the tax.
“I have not even thought about it once,” Huang, who would owe around $8 billion in taxes, said in a January interview with Bloomberg. “We chose to live in Silicon Valley, and whatever taxes they would like to apply, so be it. I’m perfectly fine with it.”
At least one oligarch understands still being a billionaire with a head is better than being a multi-billionaire until the guillotine drops…
I don’t think it’s a coincidence Huang’s house is clearly made of cards.
He knows that if anyone ever starts calling in loans, there isn’t enough money to go around. If offloading billions back into the tax system prolongs the grift and keeps them the wealthiest humans, that’s an amazing deal for them.
Which is why it shouldn’t be what we’re offering them.
Hold on. I feel like I’m misunderstanding this. Are you saying we shouldn’t tax the wealthy now?
What is it that we shouldn’t be offering them exactly?
Let’s say someone steal $1k from you.
You know it’s them, you go and confront them, and ask for your money back.
They tell you to piss off and refuse to give your money back
You call the cops, and then the thief finally offers you $20 if you leave them alone…
They’re only offering the $20 because if the cops show up they may have to pay back all $1k and actually go to jail.
What’s happening right now, is the oligarchs are offering us $20, so we stop asking for me because we’re making progress
It ain’t enough, because all their wealth belongs to us.
I’m confused by the analogy and that last part. How do you mean they’ve stolen money from us and “all” their wealth belongs to us? Could you elaborate there a bit?
How do you mean they’ve stolen money from us and “all” their wealth belongs to us?
Wealth is finite.
70 years ago, the wealth that billionaires currently have was in circulation, the rest of us would be paid it, and subsequently spend it, which would then be used to pay others.
That is what the (now mythical) “self sustaining economy” is.
Instead, the same small number of people take huge chunks of wealth out of circulation, they may invest in the stock market, but stock prices increases don’t get used to pay salaries, they only translate to money if cashed out.
So in the pursuit of raising stock prices, more and more wealth is removed from circulation
Wealth inequality is when a few remove an oversized amount of wealth from circulation, which is stealing from the rest of us
If someone “earned” a billion dollars and spent it, that wouldn’t be such a big deal.
The problem is that wealth being removed from circulation making it literally inaccessible to anyone else unless we unite and take it as a society, done peacefully this is called “taxation”.
When that stops being an option, historically there are other options
They are saying that we would offer them a “sudden drop and a short stop”
Mmkay. I’d rather their money go back into rotation though.
The point is that a lot of this money doesn’t exist. So if someone were to call it all in, the financial system would suddenly be faced with some very difficult truths.
Calling in a reasonable portion of it shouldn’t be an issue.
I don’t understand all that. The money they have doesn’t exist?
One of the examples: Amazon promised $4 billion to OpenAI as an investment. OpenAI then invested in AWS for infrastructure/training.
The money never changed hands, never existed, but is talked about as if it’s real. In reality AWS gives computing power to OpenAI in return for some stake in their business.A brief explainer: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/
How much food and healthcare does that buy?
Which is a mere 0.03% of his net worth.
This expense is akin to buying a car for anyone else.
Interesting.
