My LIFE

strong believer in doing what you know is right pun positive

beachdeath:

  • jeff bezos didn’t sign a pre-nup
  • and cheated on his wife of 25 years with a married woman
  • and washington state is a community property state, meaning that all assets acquired during a marriage are divided equally upon divorce
  • meaning that jeff bezos has to give his wife half of his net worth
  • and he is presently worth $137 billion
  • and half of $137 billion is roughly
  • $69 billion

dekapon:

postmarxed:

Remember when Stephen Hawking was more worried about inequality under capitalism than artificial intelligence in a Reddit AMA and people started telling him to read an economics 101 book? Wild. Anyways rip Steve


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“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. “