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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

The top 0.1% of 'earners' should be guillotined. No exceptions.
The new next top 1% have the choice to share until or be guillotined. They can still be rich, but not so disgustingly so.

This carries on until £50 million is the most anyone person/entity can hold. No offshore accounts. Shell companies etc etc etc. one account per person or company

Let's face it, if £50 million isn't enough then they deserve the guillotine.
Two accounts = guillotine.
Hide money = guillotine.
Put money in to your another person's/child's account then you have access, or use it yourself = guillotine.
Forgotten account? = guillotine.
Try to loophole it at all = guillotine.

Fuck the rich.

Edit:
Edited the percentage.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

£50 million puts a person in the top 0.1% in the US. Someone with $15 million net worth is already a 1 percenter in the US and world wide probably a $1 million in net worth puts you in the 1% of the world

[–] mudkip@lemdro.id 2 points 4 hours ago

Yes We must take action

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

I don't think this will have the effects you think it will

[–] jonesey71@lemmus.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Batman was a superhero because he was rich. Lex Luthor was a supervillian because he was rich. Bezos made his choice and should be treated like the villian he is.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Market economies need competition to work. If there would be a competitor with cheaper offers, Amazon would be worth much less and letting employees go would end up as cheaper prices for every customer while the unemployed can quickly find a new job.

Who is willing to build a competitor?

Otherwise it's time for a planned economy.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

More like "who can afford to build a competitor" when Amazon already has their 10,000 hrs in undercutting prices, surviving on a ~~raft~~ yacht of capital.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

There is an abundance of money right now. People will be happy to get rid of their dollars if there is a company that can break even while competing with Amazon.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 18 points 12 hours ago

Luigi them all.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’m all for fucking Bezos up but he’s not the CEO of Amazon anymore. Hasn’t been for a while now.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Most of his net worth is still in Amazon stocks.

Being a CEO doesn’t come into it

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He’s not worth $257 billion, that’s just what he’s been allowed to hoard.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Financial obesity is a great term.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 62 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I looked it up not that long ago and I'm pretty sure Amazon nets about a billion in less than a day. Not Bezos, but Amazon. And that's net, not gross.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 74 points 15 hours ago

Idk it's pretty gross if you ask me

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 30 points 15 hours ago (21 children)

His tax rate isn't related to his net worth, though. He didn't get a check for $59b.

You don't pay taxes on unrealized gains from investment vehicles, which is a good thing for the average person. Imagine having to pay a (mostly) perpetually increasing income tax on your 401k every year.

What needs to happen is the loans that banks give them against their non-liquid assets should be taxed as income.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 37 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, let’s tax them as realized gains, because if you are using your unrealized gains as collateral, is that not a form of realizing their value?

I don’t care TBH, whichever one costs them more.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's basically the same as taxing the loans as income, but I'm down to double tax them.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I don't think so. Just trigger a tax event on anything used as collateral for a loan.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

That doesn’t work. Houses are already taxed to hell, even unrealized gains on a house is taxed. So triple taxing when you use a house as collateral would hurt small business owners.

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

We absolutely pay taxes on unrealized gains. Property tax is the tax of unrealized gains. We do it for houses why can’t we do it for stocks? He’s getting dividend checks worth moillions every quarter.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Portfolio loans need to be taxed. Absolutely. You can pay 1% interest on a loan vs ~30% on income taxes. Something will need to be done about shell corporations holding personal assets as well. His yacht isn’t in his name.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was a way to make sure the tax isn't levied on normal people... Oh well.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The problem with taxing unrealized gains is that the value is always changing. It's not real money.

You'd have to pick a point in time to capture the stock/asset value, and the wealthy would just tank the value right before.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 16 points 14 hours ago

How about the moment they use it as collateral for personal loans they use as income?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You’d have to pick a point in time to capture the stock/asset value

You mean like the bank does when they loan the money?

The loan shouldn't be able to be disbursed without realized gains/capital behind it, and they can't tank the value without impacting their loan.

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[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

He could have given each of these employees a million dollars and still had 13,000,000,000 left over.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

amazon has a habit of shedding 10s of thousands of employees after hiring them, for tax breaks. almost right after, usually it only targeted the "low skilled workers" now its the higher skilled people too.

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[–] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

Preface: Fuck Bezos and how he treats the workers.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

They are thieves, criminals, slavers and psychopaths. They will kill all of us for more power and for some fucked up reason we still let billionaires exist.

[–] Liuone@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is it that hard not to buy stuff from Amazon? I don't think I ever bought anything ever from Amazon and I make all kinds of online purchases almost every week.

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[–] llama@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

Her costume ring is only $20K though

[–] AlternateHuman02@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Nice, I finally canceled my membership with them, uninstalled the app and this post makes me feel even better. I made sure to fill out their survey after saying fuck billionaires, they don't deserve my money, and that Amazon has ruined small local business. Probably doesn't mater but every little bit helps. I just wish I had done it sooner.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How do you even get a ring to cost $5M it sounds like a strategic nightmare? The most expensive gem that isn't radioactive that being the red diamond is still only ~$1M a Gram the rock would be a literal rock at that point.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Easy, set the price as $5mil. That’s literally it. The entire basis of a morally just, logical, and predictable way to set prices has been a lie for a very long time.

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