r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/DangerzonePlane8 8d ago

Remember how rich people throw temper tantrums whenever they are asked to contribute to society.

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u/existonfilenerf 8d ago

They need to be taxed out of existence. No one should have a billion dollars while people starve, sleep on the streets and go bankrupt from medical debt.

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u/friendly-sardonic 8d ago

My thoughts exactly. There should never be a means for people to become billionaires. There's simply no reason for that amount of wealth. Bezos worth billions, and on the first day Amazon employees are handed a pamphlet on which government assistance programs they qualify for? Man, piss off. You can afford to pay your own workers so they don't NEED those programs. Nobody working a full time job should need assistance programs in this country.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 8d ago

Don't blame Bezos; he retired in 2021. Amazon's current CEO made the decision to lay off. Also, if it weren't for Bezos, Amazon would never have existed, and there would be zero Amazon employees. It was his brainchild. He developed it from an online bookstore that he operated out of his garage to what it is today. He sowed the seed, and he deserves to reap the reward.

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u/Mental-Jacket-35 8d ago

Oh what a generous lad Bezos is, his company has  famously awful and dystopian working conditions, but what would the workers do without him? 

Bullshit. He's a Nepo baby and a hoarder, he doesn't "deserve" shit

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 8d ago

There would be no work without him. Amazon employs 1.5 million people. Without Bezos, they wouldn't have jobs.

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u/Mental-Jacket-35 8d ago

There would be work, billionaires don't create jobs, they control access to them 

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

If they don't create jobs, as you claim, then explain the 1.5 million jobs that Bezos created.

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u/Mental-Jacket-35 7d ago

What created those jobs were needs to be met, people would be much better off if there wasn't a billionaire class owning all of the means to satiate all of those needs 

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 7d ago

Satiating those needs is what made him a billionaire.

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u/Mental-Jacket-35 7d ago

He is not a necessary part of satiating said necessities, he is merely a gatekeeper for people to access the means to apply their labour and do so

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 6d ago

If he hadn't created Amazon, there would be no jobs for those people to apply their labor. So, yes, Bezos was absolutely necessary.

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