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I'm pretty new to slap, is the general opinion of Dill pretty low on here? Serious question. I've always enjoyed his skating but I've heard less than good things about him in the industry. I don't really know much about that shit though, that's why I came here. I thought it was fucking hilarious when he made that doodle for the nine club and botched crobs quote on it though. A very "the office" type of funny moment.
I'm a fan of his skating. He's just eccentric and that makes a pretty easy target to talk shit about.
Exactly. Plus FA is "hot" right now which makes the brand an easy target. There's always going to be skateboarders who attack the companies in skateboarding who crossover to the mainstream since skateboarding is all they have to give themselves an identity...So to them seeing people "appropriate their culture" devalues their already valueless identity....and that's obviously too much for their fragile little egos to handle
Dill is a self made dude, who against all odds did really well for himself, and those kinds of stories are what schools should be promoting right now considering how most kids end up leaving school and failing to pursue anything of significance because of the shit people like Bernie Sanders pound into their heads.
Anybody can make it in this country and Dill is proof of that.
Imagine typing this
no thanks
That brwrxstl guy is a cop.
You know I’m not a huge Bernie guy although I think he’s a fucking real one and a good man at his core, but isn’t his message that we should be educating everyone in the country with college, hence why he wants people to get free college. Like isn’t that like the epitome of counterintuitive? Like if he didn’t want people to go to college and get educated why would one of his biggest points be to provide free college education? Like the whole point whether u agree or disagree with the man is that he wants the country to be educated, he just disputes that taxpayers should pay the burden, which definitely seems unfair to those who didn’t get their education paid for but the whole idea is that eventually the populace pays into it throughout their lifetime like social security. Whether you disagree with that method or not, it’s clear the man wants Americans to be educated.
You have a point about education. I took that a bit too far without adding context. Bernie himself isn't anti education but ..... we saw it again tonight where he literally said "billionaires shouldn't exist".
That's a horrible message to send. We should be pushing people to achieve and that achievement in itself can be limitless. So when demonizes the rich like that it demonizes the concept of success as a whole. That's what I should've said. His message at times can accidentally underscore education*
Thanks for making me reflect on that.
I think it’s an even more horrible message to send that your idea of “success” should only be how much extreme wealth you can hoard while exploiting, or at best ignoring, the suffering of virtually everyone else in the world. We definitely should not be spreading the idea that’s something to “achieve”. I’d like to know what true purpose there is to having more money than you can ever possibly spend even if you lived thousands of years, besides maybe perverse bragging rights. The ruthless pursuit of short-term profits has ruined endless lives and is like literally putting the earth itself in mortal danger. The rich demonize themselves with their actions, no one needs to do it for them
Agreed.
I'm sorry, but it's true that "billionaires shouldn't exist".
Why does Bezos need so much money? And what has he done to get it? The guy is a criminal but it's ok because his company is a success story (at least financially for it's CEO)?
He has more money than he'll ever be able to spend. I'm not a communist and I'm on the fence on socialism, but c'mon, there's got to be some balance. In Japan many companies are set up where the CEO doesn't make 100000000% more than the lowest paid employee. There is still some honor in business if you want to call it that. Henry Ford created the middle class in the USA at the turn of the 20th century by giving his employees an unusually high salary, but now that middle class is completely gone. There are the poor, and there are the super rich. Those still in the middle class are those who came up through it, but there are very few 20somethings in the USA that will know what comfortable middle class life feels like unless a lot changes.
We need to start blaming those at blame. The supervillian CEOs who don't give a flying fuck about their employees or humans or the world in general and only care about adding billions to their fortune. Fuck these people and their money. I'm not impressed.
Well sure. I'm defending people like that. I'm just defending the ability for people to obtain limitless wealth. Obviously with everything there's still going to be ethics involved with what you do with that money.
Amazon has made a lot of people rich, and they'll continue to do so. The company itself is a good thing in the sense of job creation. I don't even mean Amazon Jobs themselves either. I'm talking about companies that exist to supply or provide services to Amazon. Andrew Yang talked about the rise of autonation that's on the horizon, and that industry itself is going to make a lot of people rich again thanks to Amazon. Whether it's drone hardware companies, drone efficiency companies, or whatever. There's plenty of ways people can still make their own billions thanks to Amazon.
But Bezos himself? Yeah I'm not a fan. But for every Bezos there's a Bill Gates or Buffet that does "good things" with their money but again that's an issue of personal morality and ethics more than anything.
Like If I was super rich my focus would be on making my community better and helping kids get better education, and I'd really go crazy investing in plant based foods, and animal rights related stuff. But that would be driven by me as a person. So that desire has to exist before you even get rich.
That's what I hate about liberalism and socialism is that the people in power rely on this "you're a victim of the system" message rather a "you should achieve success within the system to make the world a better place".
Bloomberg is another example. The guy is dumping hundreds of millions into a virtue driven campaign instead of just taking that money and actually doing virtuous things. It's insane. But that's again not to say that he couldn't do the opposite if he chose to which is why I'll always defend the idea of unlimited wealth.... because what you do with that money will always be dependent on free will.