I like “just start your own business!” I had a small business that did well enough that I was able to run it for 10 years and only stopped out of choice. I now have a relatively low-paying job with someone else and I am more financially secure now than I was during any of those 10 years.

Nobody said it’s easy to be independent. Stability is definitely not guaranteed when you have a small business

When “just start your own business” is presented as a real viable alternative to a job with someone else, they are saying it’s easy. There’s nothing easy about it. And they don’t tell you very important things like the tax penalty you have to pay if you don’t file quarterly.

Life is not naturally easy- it is only because of the labor of others that life is anywhere near as comfortable as it is now.

life can be easy for everyone if we all chip in a little, it’s the whole basis of society, we just can’t afford the hoarding aristocracy

Serious question: do you think the “aristocracy” has like, vaults full of money? Like you think Jeff Bezos has billions of dollars sitting in his bank account? Or a literal vault?

Because that is definitely not how rich people actually live. As a rule, they have very little liquidity as a percent of their net worth.

What does that have to do with anything? Just because the wealth is on paper doesn’t make it any less real.

It matters because people suggest that Bezos et al “hoard wealth” which is both untrue and impossible with the way their wealth is calculated.

But they are totally hoarding their on paper wealth. It’s impossible to end up with $200 billion without intentionally hoarding it.

That’s not true at all. Bezos, for instance, is worth so much solely because Amazon is worth so much. It has nothing to do with his personal spending habits whatsoever.

Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, he can definitely take some of the credit/blame that it’s worth so much and that he has such a large stake. He could cash out at any point, but he chooses not to, aka hoarding.

… what exactly do you think would happen to Amazon’s stock value if Bezos cashed out?

And how exactly is owning a company “hoarding”