It’s a fantastic point, but John Boyega’s net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn’t safe either…
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like… an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
Put it this way: We, people without a lot of money / living paycheck to paycheck / not paid a living wage, are WAY WAY WAY closer to John Boyega than John Boyega is to Jeff Bezos.
Like if John Boyega is the moon, hard to visit but not impossible, Jeff Bezos is, idk, Alpha Centauri or some shit. We can see him, but we’re never going to get to where he is in our lifetimes.
6 million in assets doesn’t even put you in the top 1%. Will John Boyega get to the 1% (10mil)? Sure he will given that he’s still young and has good earning potential. Will he get to be a billionaire? Nope. Not unless he changes career to “evil capitalist”. 1 billion is 167x more than the 6 million John Boyega has. When Bezos hit a trillion he will have 167000x more than Boyega. Anyone who has over $36 is closer to Boyega than Boyega is to 1 Trillion.
can we just like. Use scientific notation? it makes it MUCH easier to understand the differences
a year’s salary at minimum wage of $7.25: $1.5 x 10^4
one million dollars: $1.0 x 10^6
John boyega’s net worth of $6 million: $6.0 x 10^6
one billion dollars: $1.0 x 10^9 (dr-dendritic-trees was wrong, a billion is THREE orders of magnitude larger than a million, not just one order of magnitude larger like the words ‘million’ and ‘billion’ imply)
A while ago I was casually scrolling through my dash and came upon @real-faker ‘s reblog of @tarotfurbyandchill ‘s post about the furby they were trying to track down that was abandoned in the desert. I was intrigued and looked at their blog, then followed them out of curiosity. More furby accounts were recommended to me and, because I found the fandom a little weird but pretty funny, I made this post
Originally intended to be a joke, a bunch of furby accs reblogged and commented on it. I looked at all their accounts and then added another joke to that post about how I slowly started wanting a furby and the fandom and their furbs must have been brainwashing me. I’d been posting this on my snapchat as well, since more of my irl friends follow me there, and at the next GSA meeting at my school, someone who I hadn’t talked to much before mentioned that they had an old furby that had been sitting around for a while and didn’t want.
It was right before winter break so I wouldn’t be able to get it from him for a few weeks. He sent me two pictures of her and I started looking for a name for her, going back to @tarotfurbyandchill ‘s account and looking through their list of potential furby names.
I was looking through the color suggestions when I found one I probably wouldn’t use, Sasquatch Socks. Assuming it would be a brownish color I only looked it up bc, ironically like the furby fandom, I thought it sounded funny and a bit weird. Surprise surprise! It’s a bright pink! A very similar pink to the soon-to-be-mine furb!
Suddenly, a beautiful idea struck! Paying homage to the artist whose reblog started it all,
This is Sock!!!
she’s much louder than i expected and only stays on for like a minute before she goes to sleep and the only way i can get her to wake up is to take one of the batteries out and put it back in but i love this goofy bitch
please remember this holiday season that a santa furby is a FOREVER pet. not a christmas pet. not a yule pet. not a stocking stuffer. are you willing to continuously supply them sugar cookies when they’re out of season? provide them with chimneys to climb up after it stops being a funny instagram-worthy video? bathe them daily in eggnog? give them a candy-cane based substrate in their cage? think before you buy.
every fall teenage girls are like.. “oh , im gonna enter a place of business and order a product which is offered by that place of business because i like the flavor of it” and honestly? how dare they. that’s so annoying. why can’t they buy the beverage that i, a smart man, would prefer to drink
Probably because they’re generally indifferent to the flavor of it and rather use it for in group/out group signalling like the giant basic bitch wall-decorations-from-target early childhood education/nutrition hive mind they are.
dude shut the fuck up lol
ok i spend all day with teenagers and am paid to educate them and let me tell you most of my girls may love leggings (comfy) and iced coffees (yummy) but i have never, NEVER, seen thirty of them spend a solid month all playing the same boring goddamn video game or had to pry them off their tablets and phones the day some ugly-ass overpriced sneaker drops
try and get a group of teenage boys to all stop making the same fucking meme reference all. goddamn. day. then, and ONLY then, can you talk to me about hive mind
Can you imagine being a middle or high school teacher when Pickle Rick dropped.
Hey, how about we don’t ridicule other people’s interests in an effort to defend our own?
What’s wrong about playing a video game a lot because you like it so much? What’s wrong with having an interest in shoes or other expensive fashions? What’s wrong with memes and making jokes? What’s wrong with liking a cartoon? Nothing, except that those things don’t interest you personally, you find them annoying and boring, and you view them as beneath you. You’re no better than the people making fun of girls for pumpkin spice and leggings and shopping and purse decorations and heart emojis and uggs and whatever else they like.
Seriously, just leave people alone. They’re allowed to like whatever the hell they want and they don’t deserve ridicule for something as simple as taking an interest in shoes.
every fall teenage girls are like.. “oh , im gonna enter a place of business and order a product which is offered by that place of business because i like the flavor of it” and honestly? how dare they. that’s so annoying. why can’t they buy the beverage that i, a smart man, would prefer to drink
Probably because they’re generally indifferent to the flavor of it and rather use it for in group/out group signalling like the giant basic bitch wall-decorations-from-target early childhood education/nutrition hive mind they are.
dude shut the fuck up lol
ok i spend all day with teenagers and am paid to educate them and let me tell you most of my girls may love leggings (comfy) and iced coffees (yummy) but i have never, NEVER, seen thirty of them spend a solid month all playing the same boring goddamn video game or had to pry them off their tablets and phones the day some ugly-ass overpriced sneaker drops
try and get a group of teenage boys to all stop making the same fucking meme reference all. goddamn. day. then, and ONLY then, can you talk to me about hive mind
Can you imagine being a middle or high school teacher when Pickle Rick dropped.
Hey, how about we don’t ridicule other people’s interests in an effort to defend our own?
What’s wrong about playing a video game a lot because you like it so much? What’s wrong with having an interest in shoes or other expensive fashions? What’s wrong with memes and making jokes? What’s wrong with liking a cartoon? Nothing, except that those things don’t interest you personally, you find them annoying and boring, and you view them as beneath you. You’re no better than the people making fun of girls for pumpkin spice and leggings and shopping and purse decorations and heart emojis and uggs and whatever else they like.
Seriously, just leave people alone. They’re allowed to like whatever the hell they want and they don’t deserve ridicule for something as simple as taking an interest in shoes.
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