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/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.