Hey there. Um, Imma just share something I have a personal moment. So it was about me and my family visiting a bookstore (due to me being Filipino, let’s call it “National Bookstore”) and we were set to stock on school supplies, the fam decided to split up for better ground, the parents with my little brother and me with my sole sister. As we collected the shit we needed for school, we (me and sis) saw some light novels (books with anime covers on them) and we decided to take a peak, and that made my brain function quite a bit, “The Billionaire’s Secret”, I don’t share a lot of shit on the internet (due to fears of getting ousted by the public for either embarrassing shit or political stances) but here’s something, I have a tendency to say the thoughts in my head out loud, the thought that made me splurt out loud was “exploiting the workers” as I held the book (wasn’t intent on purchasing it), yeah, my sister, let’s call her “Sunny”, heard me say that and started laughing, mostly because she found it funny that I said that about that book (Billionaire’s Secret) where she was about to show a more cutesy light novel (something about two nerds falling in love I guess? Idk I just guessed with the cover). We argued politics, mostly about billionaires, a bit (like “not all billionaires are Jeff Bezos” on her end and me countering her with saying “profits from billionaires have to come from somewhere” and adding “generational wealth” as another “Billionaire Secret”), realized that light novels aren’t on our list of “needed school supplies”, and me and Sunny just kept finding the parents and lil bro and moved on with our day. This moment was pretty funny to me tbh and Sunny would probably agree with me. Note to those asking about my sister’s political stances, she is apolitical, but decently open-minded.

  • @Shrike502
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    122 years ago

    profits from billionaires have to come from somewhere

    A lot of people seem to believe the lie that the profits are generated by the products that are made by companies said billionaires own. I.e. selling junk on Amazon in case of Bezos.