NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”
“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”
“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”
“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”
“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”
“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”
“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”
Exactly!
Lex Fridman podcast, every single episode:
Lex: My guest today invented modern computing. Before we start. What is a computer?
Guest: Well it's a machine that
Lex: But what IS a computer. Is a rock a computer.
Guest: No.
Lex: The atoms inside the rock are computing.
Guest: That's not how any of this
Lex: Do you love your work.
Guest: Sure?
Lex: On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you think Stalin loved his work.
Guest: What
Lex: We're 4 hours in. I want to ask you about consciousness.
Guest: You haven't let me finish a sentence yet
Lex: Beautiful. Beautiful question my friend.
The most racist man you know would still save a brown man from a burning building. The least racist woman you know would laugh at your funeral if you voted wrong
when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it.
gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know."
he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done."
neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals.
together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity."
spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined.
the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!
@blacknredtext Aww man, that makes me sad. Dumping my crow collection. Crow threads on 4chan are my fave, but jannies don't like them.
https://t.co/N4cGIxX6GK
>in his mid 40s
>sells people into slavery
>gets banished from the continent
>takes a deal from the crown to have his crimes pardoned
>"all I have to do is get these kids murdered. nice"
>sees the 13 year old girl naked
>falls in love
>"my queen"
the first rule of ADHD is Never Sit Down and Don’t Take A Break. breaks are traps. momentum is your friend. you will get bored long before you get tired and you will conflate the two and it is ur brain’s favorite lie! do it in one sweep!