"This event involves just 200 carefully selected guests and will bring major economic benefits to the city," the local politician said
Tell me you don't understand what is being protested without telling me you don't understand what is being protested.
You cannot fathom the damages brought about by 20 years of Berlusconism
Having all those billionaires there gathered at once would be a massive opportunity to create a huge transferable amount of wealth under the right circumstances.
Yeah,but can we please leave Venice intact doing that? Without the tourists it's a nice little city to be honest, and its inhabitants have suffered enough.
Maybe Marghera?
:wink:
They can have their wedding in one of their beloved tax havens, not in some crumbling city that should be preserved as well as possible.
Doesn't Venice take a tax for each visitor? They should up this as much as possible. If you really want to go there you can pay a 100+ euros.
Don't get me started on cruise ships and the clientele on there.
100+ euros? Lets say its 200€ each. And lets say Jeffy B has 2000 guests. So he has to pay 400.000€ in taxes. You know how long he has to do nothing to earn 400k? 100 Seconds. That's not even 2 minutes where he earns as much as we pay for a home.
Indeed, they do have a tax. But it's essentially a tourist trap / tourist heaven now, a giant partying hub with few notable events that appeal to the 'haute culture' that, somehow, feels consumeristic in nature.
Tax based on yearly income of the individual. Even with the creative accounting these shits do, it will still dwarf what normal people make.
That picture. He's one monocle away from being a bond villain and she looks like she's halfway through the transformation into a vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's even got one eyebrow raised like the monocle is already there. I wonder if he's just used to wearing one in his evil lair.
If we were to rank people on the basis of how far they are on the path towards enlightenment, without a doubt Jeff Bezos would have all the world in front of him.
Why the fuck would any of those people want to go to the wedding of a glorified shopkeeper anyway? Mick Jagger? WTAF?
He's probably getting paid a literal boat load to be there. Kardashian already paid trump off to release someone from prison, so she'll go where the wind takes her. Leonardo diCaprio probably wants to see some fresh college age Italian girls. The trumps want to be seen as one of the elites, even though they know everyone secretly hates them by now and see them as white trash. Bezos inviting them is another matter.
Rich people are weird.
Edit: and by that I mean that I find it hard to believe that at any of these people are still motivated by money, and if they are, they need to seek psychiatric help. I reckon it's more out of boredom. Jagger and DiCaprio are probably there in support of his cradle robbing.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. ”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Same as it ever was.
That's a great Fitzgerald quote. I had to look it up. Written after The Great Gatsby but published shortly before, The Rich Boy is a novelette. From 1926.
Sometimes a DIY icepick lobotomy doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Bezos made (makes?) his people piss in bottles, he's one of the richest in the world. They think they're smart by being frugal. Yes, rich people are absolutely weird.
For the same reason they are rich. It is a network that is looking out after each other and protecting their class interests. You go there you shake some hands, exchange some numbers and strike a deal or two.
They forced him to the suburbs, now they're like the little people.
I hope the people in those suburbs kick up a stink as well.
Venice "suburbs" are basically the industrial zone or the farm lands. It's different than NA or Australian burbs.
Still gonna be people there.
It looks like Lauren Sanchez has had one too many plastic surgeries.
yeah about 9 surgeries ago
Yep, looks more like Temu than like Amazon.
don't know about Amazon but certainly not her Prime
I'm with the locals on this one. Bezos should go attempt something anatomically impossible on himself.
Love to see it
This is the actual answer. Remember Greenpeace, who would set sail to interrupt oil tankers?
Sailors in the Vaca Navy, what's the point in having wealth if you can't enjoy it?
Ironic. Venice was built by people like Bezos.
No matter how one looks at that assertion, it's just plain fucking wrong.
Did slave owners build Venice? No. Rich Romans? Also no. Someone who isn't a slave owner but worked all his subjects to the bone? Nope as well.
Lmao if you say so, Ayn Rand
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