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No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere 🌼 ... Chasing the sun ☀️ ... In Omnia Paratus ☂️

[dd @misswildflower]

@kris 100k incoming

[Kris @kris]

When Bitcoin hits $100,000 I will give 1 BTC to one person who follows me.

The rules are simple:
- like this tweet, follow me and RT
- comment “100k incoming”

Let’s go! $BTC #bitcoin

[dd @misswildflower]

@elonmusk 🫶🏻

[dd @misswildflower]

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[dd @misswildflower]

@elonmusk Yasssss!! 🙌🏻

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Billionaires got 70% richer in the pandemic - that's an extra $2 trillion - and workers got an effective pay cut after accounting for inflation.

Anyone who still calls the rich "job creators" or pushes "trickle-down economics" thinks you can not think for yourself.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

there are workers who make less per hour than parking spaces and people still think the minimum wage should stay right where it is for the 13th straight year

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Roblox went public a year ago. Since then its stock dropped 30%.

The company rewarded its CEO with a $233 million pay package - 1,680x the median employee.

How come when an employee does poorly, they get fired, but when a CEO does, they get $200 million?
https://t.co/3zJuKfcRid

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

We got 800 applications for a customer service job opening in the last few days.

We pay a living wage ($70k+), full benefits, 401(k), paid parental leave, let people work where they want.

There's no labor shortage. There's a shortage of jobs treating people with basic respect.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Today Mark Zuckerberg lost $31 billion - a quarter of his fortune - and still has 1.1% of all Millennial wealth.

To give you a sense of how out-of-whack things are.

(oh and his tax rate is lower than the middle-class rate)

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Gas prices are up
Poor oil companies: "there's nothing we can do"

Chevron just posted a $15.6 billion profit, its biggest since 2014. The extra money is going to investors via a larger dividend.

We have a corporate greed problem, not an inflation problem
https://t.co/qDxywjIKDd

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

99% of Zoom meetings could be replaced with an email.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 million in stock to enrich execs and investors and pays its CEO $16 million. It makes $2.1 billion a year in profit.

It is raising prices on cereals 20% and blaming "inflation"
https://t.co/N6BRIw6jb1

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

To recap: unfettered capitalism gave us the empty store shelves they warned would happen under socialism, but instead of getting a social safety net, we got to watch a few rich people go to near-space for 10 minutes

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Billionaire wealth is now up 70% in the pandemic. That's an extra $2.1 trillion.

Meanwhile the entire "too big" spending plan we "can't afford" is $350 billion a year, or 17% of that.

Oh and those billionaires all paid a lower tax rate than you did.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Teacher vacancies are up 67% in some states.

As a society we say "the children are our future," then put teachers $100k in debt for a master's, pay them a median of $60k and charger them higher taxes than the billionaires that could be funding their pay
https://t.co/OEMStfU8Sz

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

You ever think about how when wages stayed stagnant from 2008-2019, that was just "the market" and not wage-fixing by companies?

But as soon as wages started to go up in the last year, it was "lazy people on welfare" and not the market finally correcting itself?

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Dick's burgers in Seattle just upped its minimum wage to $19. It gives workers free health care, 3 weeks paid vacation, 50% 401(k) match and $9,000 for tuition/childcare.

Its basic burger costs $1.80.

But I was told that paying people a living wage would make burgers cost $20?