• jeffw@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. I feel like calling it a millionaire tax is some right wing nonsense.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t strictly call it right wing nonsense. However, I’d definitely call it classist nonsense. Bezos owns stake in Business Insider, and is owned by Insider Inc. The CEO of Insider is Henry Blodget, who has a net worth of at least $50m and received over $300m in the sale of Insider to Axel Springer SE. The CEO of Axel Springer SE is Mathias Döpfner, with a net worth of $1.2B. The founder of Axel Springer SE is Axel Springer, who was compared to Rupert Murdoch when he was alive.