• lauha@lemmy.world
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    Assuming his networth 241 billion, 7 dollar minimum wage, 24 hour workdays, that would be just under 4 million years

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      I say tack on another week of wages for every disciplinary action, and if he somehow still magically becomes a perfect employee and completes it with the handicap, fuck it, let him into heaven.

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      I don’t trust Bezos to distribute his wealth, but I sure as fuck don’t trust anarchists or tankies to do it, either. I DO trust a democracy to do it via taxation, but apparently that’s a fucking minority, too, so it never gets enough votes.

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      Hierarchy!

      Man, don’t you know? The law ain’t made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days - back in the real old days - it was just every man for himself, scrooblin’ and scrat-scroblin’ for the good stuff, the greenest valleys. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like ‘The rest of you, y’all scrats get sand.’ And that’s when they made the laws, you see? Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said ‘This is fair now, this is the law.’ Once they were winning, they changed the rules up

      ~ Jake the dog

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    I’m not religious, but the bible clearly states that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich person to get into heaven. There’s debate about the “eye of the needle” being simple metaphor or whether it was an actual, but very tiny, gate to the city of Jerusalem. Regardless, the idea stands.

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      Not a lot of debate among scholars. There’s no other evidence of the “eye of the needle” being used in a way that refers to the small doorway in a larger city gate or any of the other alternative readings. Conversely, there are sewing needles dated to that time and place that are roughly the same as modern sewing needles.

      The statement is exactly as radical as it looks at first glance. Rich people can’t be right with God, period. All the rest is trying to invent a loophole to let rich people be Christians after Constantine made it widespread in the Roman Empire. First century Christians were almost entirely made of the poor people of the Empire, and would have had no problem at all with the statement as read. The modern reinterpretation is often argued by the exact same people who say you’re not supposed to “read between the lines” of the Bible.

      Here’s a Religion for Breakfast video on it: https://youtu.be/sf0Fm8aVApk

      And don’t get me started on Paul’s “the love of money is the root of all evil”. Just totally bastardized for the Prosperity Gospel.

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        The word for Aramaic word for “camel” is basically the same as for “heavy rope”, which is a much more reasonable interpretation. Just as a rope is too big to fit through the eye of a needle, so is the material obsession of a rich person too big.

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    Lately I felt that the concept of hell wasn’t really in my mind until I spent time on the US dominated internet.

    Hell doesn’t exist, I don’t like it being thought of as punishment. He’ll be dead when he’s dead. Nothing more.

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    “If”?

    I always smile when someone starts a question about death with the word “if”

    It’s never a question of ‘if’ we die or when someone dies … it’s a question of ‘when’

    Death … it’s the great equalizer for all of humanity, no matter how smart, dumb, young, old, rich, poor, intelligent, stupid, educated, illiterate you are, we always end up in the same place where we started … the deep dark eternal sleep.

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    No, he gets Paradise, but he never has to do nothing all day + never use his hands.

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    His value or worth is far more than what he ‘has’. I’m all for lowering min. wage. Competition in the work force should be a thing and parasitic unions should be ended.

    Bezos paying min is far from the worst thing he’s done. Copying a product and underselling (at a loss) to put companies out of business for example. He should have to reimburse in this life, as there is no other.