"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...
I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.
That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.
When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.
Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.
Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."
@ScottMStedman@JeffBezos another absurd comment. no one forces people to work for amazon for one thing. and bold claims require evidence. where’s yours? and if it’s the usual 1 warehouse worker with 5 kids can’t ‘make it’, well, the worker should have used birth control.
@EyeOfTheKing1@ScottMStedman@JeffBezos absurd. “these billionaires” are all entirely different. jeff bezos came from VERY humble beginnings. he’s also pretty progressive from what i can tell. but running businesses is different. you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, they’re not charities.