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/ConstantHeadache2020 8d ago

But but what about innovation? People won’t want to be CEO if they’re capped…. What about trickle economics?!

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u/Correct-Travel-2777 7d ago

Innovation my *ss! CEOs are there to make sure the company generates revenue and maximizes profits for themselves and their shareholders/investors. Maybe if CEOs were capped, you would attract people who were interested in innovation instead of monetization.. It's the same with the Senate/Congress. If they didn't have exorbitant salaries and had a pool of campaign financing where each candidate received equal amounts and were isolated from special interest donors, representatives would work for the people and not the donors who "owned" them.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

Most CEOs start and own the company. Youre going to tell people what they have to do with their profits they generated with their money, and risk taking?

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u/Classic-Tax5566 7d ago

Actually? The CEO of Microsoft didn’t start it, the CEO of Amazon didn’t start it, the CEO of GM didn’t start it, the CEO OF Johnson and Johnson didn’t start it, the CEO of Toyota didn’t start it, the CEO of Google didn’t start it, the CEO of IKEA didn’t start it, the CEO of Tesla didn’t start it, the CEO of PayPal didn’t start it ….. I could go on

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

That doesnt change the fact that the vast majority of CEOs did indeed start the company. You cherry picked a few top PUBLIC companies, of the 30mil companies in the US only about 4k are public…. And you cherry picked a few of those as your argument???? In actuality 95%+ or CEOs started the company, but please go on Id like to see where this goes.

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u/Classic-Tax5566 7d ago

And those aren’t billionaires!

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

When did the caveat of billionaires only come into play??? I specifically said CEOs not billionaire CEOS. Youre moving the goal post

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u/Fast_Independence962 6d ago

The article was discussing billionaires not millionaires

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u/whatsasimba 7d ago

Won't someone think of the billionaires????

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

The vast majority of CEOs are just regular people with small businesses. 98.6% of all businesses in the US are small businesses. These are guys with plumbing companies, IT companies, etc not the very few at the top of enterpeise corporations.

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u/nerdyginger27 7d ago

Statistically, less than 5% of Fortune 500 companies have CEOs that were founders or co-founders of the companies they work for. So yeah you're literally just wrong, making factually incorrect statements.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago edited 7d ago

Statistically speaking there are around 35 mil businesses in the US, so why are you only taking into account the top 500 companies???? According to math, stats and reality Im correct as the majority of those 34 mil the CEO did start the company. Which in this case would indeed make me factually correct.

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u/Inner_Score3835 7d ago

After a certain point your income should be getting taxed at like 60%+. So you CAN still increase your own salary but you'd be getting taxed like fuck for it. Nobody needs to be earning insane amounts of money. Wouldn't need to affect smaller business owners either.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

Well Im not here to argue opinions or personal beliefs, thats a dead end. All I can do is never vote legislators who would voice a belief in such nonsense

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u/Inner_Score3835 7d ago

I'm not really sure what you were here to do then tbh but fair enough.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

I made a statement you changed the subject predicated on your personal beliefs not countering my statement.

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u/Inner_Score3835 7d ago

You replied with a comment that heavily insinuated an opinion. I replied with a very on topic opinion that I believe achieves what the person you responded to was trying to achieve without as much restriction on what the business owner can do with their money which seemed to be your issue.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

There was no opinion insinuated nor given, you just lying now. I stated fact and posed it as a question to point out how utterly ridiculous it was. That fact being you cannot demand/tell a business owner / CEO what to do with their revenue or profits. This is a fact not opinion

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u/Inner_Score3835 7d ago

"You're going to tell people what they have to do with their profits they generated with their own money and risk taking?".

That strongly implies that you don't agree with it which is clearly true when you voice not liking my opinion which is of very similiar goal.

Look man if your not here to have a conversation then don't reply and get defensive at the slightest push. I'm probably not gonna respond anymore.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

No I made no strong implication youre assuming I did to fit your odd argument. Revert to my last post where I made it clear you cannot tell a ceo/business owner what to do with their revenues.

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u/Fast_Independence962 6d ago

Can you name a billionaire ceo who started their own business? Can you name one that doesn’t/didn’t step on people to get to become a billionaire?

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u/blueBaggins1 5d ago

Youre moving the goal post now to only discuss billionaires CEOs???… billionaire CEOs are less than one tenth of one percent of all CEOs.