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Bezos paid big money to have a Venice wedding. Not all of the public was impressed.
Really kind of harming themselves as a lot of money would have gone into the City. The anger toward the wealthy really doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyone who wants to be rich in America has the opportunity. Just get out there, formulate a business plan, and put it into action. You have a shot just like everyone else. On the other hand if you don't try you really shouldn't fault those who do.Bezos paid big money to have a Venice wedding. Not all of the public was impressed.
Venice protesters claim victory in Bezos-Sanchez wedding venue change
Of course this is silly. Do other adults still leave quarters under your pillow if you lose a tooth? Mom and dad didn’t have the heart to tell you the truth about Santa Claus?Anyone who wants to be rich in America has the opportunity.
A rational post ruined by "paying for illegals." Shame. Criticizing hatred is rational, but using hatred in the criticism is not.Really kind of harming themselves as a lot of money would have gone into the City. The anger toward the wealthy really doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyone who wants to be rich in America has the opportunity. Just get out there, formulate a business plan, and put it into action. You have a shot just like everyone else. On the other hand if you don't try you really shouldn't fault those who do.
I know people who a prefectly happy living in a cabin in the woods and hunting an fishing all the time. Only work enough to fund their needs. So wealth is great, but freedom is as well. The left needs to stop attacking people for having money. The tax laws are made by Congress. If you don't like them call your Congress person. In cities like NYC, the taxes are exorbitant and people who cannot afford to live there need to move to a less expensive state. The other alternative is tell the local politicians you are tired of paying for silly services, paying for illegals in the city and tired of paying some of the highest taxes of any city in America. FOR WHAT?
Venice is nasty, not sure why you would hold a wedding there.
The boardwalk is worth seeing once but it's nothing that special.Most people have never been to Venice and will never go. Mostly it's just for the locals and the well-off who can either afford it or dream about it so much they pay ridiculous portions of their hard earned meager wealth to fulfill a dream. And then their money is gone. And that is why we have the saying: "A fool and their money are quickly parted."
It's far better in this day and age to simply enjoy what is within one's budget and use the fantastic science we have to enjoy pictures and movies showing points of interest. The travel so many people dream of? It's really a huge PITA. Travel is crap. You get treated like Convicts, Cattle and Sardines on airplanes. First you have to empty your pockets, assume the position and get frisked like some kind of convict; then you are herded down the chutes into the plane like so many cattle; and finally you assume your 2 square feet of space crammed up against your fellow travelers no matter what their size (good luck if you don't get placed between a couple of giants,) in a big aluminum tube like a bunch of sardines.
Then, you get through all the hassles of travel and get to stay in some place where a million people have been before, on some worn out bed that who knows what has taken place on before you get it, with strange covers, a strange pillow, a strange thermostat, and somehow you are supposed to get the combination of all these things just right for a good nights sleep? When your body is still accustomed to a different time zone? Good freaking luck. You'll be in a half-sleep daze the whole time. You body will not feel right. Whenever you do get home you will be very glad. And hopefully you don't get some strange illness you have no immuniities for because you don't live there. Best idea is to just stay where you live your life and make the best of it right where you are. If you can't be happy at home, going some place else is not going to change it. Use your money for some counseling and figure out how to deal with issues so you can truly be happy. That is money better spent.
Everyone should do themselves a favor. There is unique beauty to every place where people live. People travel from all over to see it. Learn what is nearby the home dwelling and enjoy it at times when the crowds are not there, from the comfort of home. Then suffice to read and watch about the rest of the world. Use your time to give back to your community in some way that inspires you. Make it better for succeeding generations. That's a life well lived.
Jimmy Carter got it right. Human character is not about what one owns. It is about what one does. He will go down in history as a truly great leader and an inspiration. The super-rich power mongers can take all their right wing hate mongering propaganda and stick it up their big greedy wealthy bank accounts. They can't take it with them.
Anyone and everyone cannot become anything and everything they desire. Humans have limitations. Part of maturing is knowing these limitations.Of course this is silly. Do other adults still leave quarters under your pillow if you lose a tooth? Mom and dad didn’t have the heart to tell you the truth about Santa Claus?
And they’re being crushed by big corporate interests that now use actual government control to generate their profit. See: Musk, Elon.Anyone and everyone cannot become anything and everything they desire. Humans have limitations. Part of maturing is knowing these limitations.
This does not mean everyone doesn't have opportunity. We all do. Entrepreneurs are the engine of the economy. Small business employs more than big business.
Get yourself a food truck. Get your truck listed in the top 100 on Yelp. Get money. That's how it works.
Only 1 Nevada food truck made Yelp’s top 100 in 2025 — and it’s not from Las Vegas
Reno-based Big Blue Q of Tahoe cooked its way up to 70th place in the annual list of Yelp’s 2025 Top 100 Food Trucks.www.rgj.com
That's for chefs. Brainiacs design AI chips.
AI chip startup Positron raises $23.5 million seed round to take on Nvidia
Reno-based Positron says its chips use less than a third of the power of Nvidia’s top-of-the-line H100 graphical processing units.www.usatoday.com
There is plenty of opportunity in the US economy. While big corporate interests control much, the storefronts in our communities are still owned by independent small businesspersons.
Are you claiming Bezos flies coach?Most people have never been to Venice and will never go. Mostly it's just for the locals and the well-off who can either afford it or dream about it so much they pay ridiculous portions of their hard earned meager wealth to fulfill a dream. And then their money is gone. And that is why we have the saying: "A fool and their money are quickly parted."
It's far better in this day and age to simply enjoy what is within one's budget and use the fantastic science we have to enjoy pictures and movies showing points of interest. The travel so many people dream of? It's really a huge PITA. Travel is crap. You get treated like Convicts, Cattle and Sardines on airplanes. First you have to empty your pockets, assume the position and get frisked like some kind of convict; then you are herded down the chutes into the plane like so many cattle; and finally you assume your 2 square feet of space crammed up against your fellow travelers no matter what their size (good luck if you don't get placed between a couple of giants,) in a big aluminum tube like a bunch of sardines.
Then, you get through all the hassles of travel and get to stay in some place where a million people have been before, on some worn out bed that who knows what has taken place on before you get it, with strange covers, a strange pillow, a strange thermostat, and somehow you are supposed to get the combination of all these things just right for a good nights sleep? When your body is still accustomed to a different time zone? Good freaking luck. You'll be in a half-sleep daze the whole time. You body will not feel right. Whenever you do get home you will be very glad. And hopefully you don't get some strange illness you have no immuniities for because you don't live there. Best idea is to just stay where you live your life and make the best of it right where you are. If you can't be happy at home, going some place else is not going to change it. Use your money for some counseling and figure out how to deal with issues so you can truly be happy. That is money better spent.
Everyone should do themselves a favor. There is unique beauty to every place where people live. People travel from all over to see it. Learn what is nearby the home dwelling and enjoy it at times when the crowds are not there, from the comfort of home. Then suffice to read and watch about the rest of the world. Use your time to give back to your community in some way that inspires you. Make it better for succeeding generations. That's a life well lived.
Jimmy Carter got it right. Human character is not about what one owns. It is about what one does. He will go down in history as a truly great leader and an inspiration. The super-rich power mongers can take all their right wing hate mongering propaganda and stick it up their big greedy wealthy bank accounts. They can't take it with them.
But they're not. That was my point.And they’re being crushed by big corporate interests that now use actual government control to generate their profit. See: Musk, Elon.
Wow! Seems you don't like to travel.Most people have never been to Venice and will never go. Mostly it's just for the locals and the well-off who can either afford it or dream about it so much they pay ridiculous portions of their hard earned meager wealth to fulfill a dream. And then their money is gone. And that is why we have the saying: "A fool and their money are quickly parted."
It's far better in this day and age to simply enjoy what is within one's budget and use the fantastic science we have to enjoy pictures and movies showing points of interest. The travel so many people dream of? It's really a huge PITA. Travel is crap. You get treated like Convicts, Cattle and Sardines on airplanes. First you have to empty your pockets, assume the position and get frisked like some kind of convict; then you are herded down the chutes into the plane like so many cattle; and finally you assume your 2 square feet of space crammed up against your fellow travelers no matter what their size (good luck if you don't get placed between a couple of giants,) in a big aluminum tube like a bunch of sardines.
Then, you get through all the hassles of travel and get to stay in some place where a million people have been before, on some worn out bed that who knows what has taken place on before you get it, with strange covers, a strange pillow, a strange thermostat, and somehow you are supposed to get the combination of all these things just right for a good nights sleep? When your body is still accustomed to a different time zone? Good freaking luck. You'll be in a half-sleep daze the whole time. You body will not feel right. Whenever you do get home you will be very glad. And hopefully you don't get some strange illness you have no immuniities for because you don't live there. Best idea is to just stay where you live your life and make the best of it right where you are. If you can't be happy at home, going some place else is not going to change it. Use your money for some counseling and figure out how to deal with issues so you can truly be happy. That is money better spent.
Everyone should do themselves a favor. There is unique beauty to every place where people live. People travel from all over to see it. Learn what is nearby the home dwelling and enjoy it at times when the crowds are not there, from the comfort of home. Then suffice to read and watch about the rest of the world. Use your time to give back to your community in some way that inspires you. Make it better for succeeding generations. That's a life well lived.
Jimmy Carter got it right. Human character is not about what one owns. It is about what one does. He will go down in history as a truly great leader and an inspiration. The super-rich power mongers can take all their right wing hate mongering propaganda and stick it up their big greedy wealthy bank accounts. They can't take it with them.
You can bring up anecdotal examples to your heart’s content. They don’t overcome the landslide of evidence that massive corps have crushed American life, and it’s become more acute under this admin. Musk doesn’t just rely on government contracts and subsidies for his companies, he literally put his hands on our agencies and cleared the way for his companies to have any obstacles removed - investigations into tesla’s autopilot crash record killed, in one example. Starlink was literally being pimped by our ambassadors to other nations. A.I. companies are aided by the government in their argument that they need to be able to freely steal others’ works in order for THEM to make a profit.But they're not. That was my point.
Big Blue Q of Tahoe is not being crushed by any corporation. The corporate world has not entered the food truck market, to my knowledge.
Positron is competing directly with Nvidia, so two highly intelligent entrepreneurs may in fact bring down a corporate giant.
Yes, Elon Musk has relied on government subsidy to support his operations. Musk's ex-partner JB Straubel has received government help, as well. Redwood Materials was granted a federal loan and has received the same perks available through Nevada state law as Musk was.
The point is opportunity. Everyone can start a business. What type of business and its breadth are limited. A trust fund baby can afford to buy a business or two. Others need to raise financing. A food truck can be purchased by those with collateral, such as a home, or good credit. A chip producing company requires investors. Good ideas backed by solid business plans attract capital, as Positron has done.
The framework is there.
So you can deny they exist. No thanks. If your argument is denial, I guess I'm wasting my time.You can bring up anecdotal examples to your heart’s content.
Don't start a business. You've already defeated yourself.They don’t overcome the landslide of evidence that massive corps have crushed American life, and it’s become more acute under this admin. Musk doesn’t just rely on government contracts and subsidies for his companies, he literally put his hands on our agencies and cleared the way for his companies to have any obstacles removed - investigations into tesla’s autopilot crash record killed, in one example. Starlink was literally being pimped by our ambassadors to other nations. A.I. companies are aided by the government in their argument that they need to be able to freely steal others’ works in order for THEM to make a profit.
The frame work is there, but corporate interests in alignment with right wing oligarchy have created a crony capitilism economic dystopia that does not reward hard work, good ideas, and stick-to-it-ivenss. Look at Trump. An objective stupid guy, yet has been rewarded well past what his station in life should have been under a proper market of hard work and best ideas winning.
Really kind of harming themselves as a lot of money would have gone into the City. The anger toward the wealthy really doesn't make a lot of sense.
Anyone who wants to be rich in America has the opportunity. Just get out there, formulate a business plan, and put it into action. You have a shot just like everyone else. On the other hand if you don't try you really shouldn't fault those who do.
I know people who a prefectly happy living in a cabin in the woods and hunting an fishing all the time. Only work enough to fund their needs.
So wealth is great, but freedom is as well. The left needs to stop attacking people for having money.
The tax laws are made by Congress. If you don't like them call your Congress person.
In cities like NYC, the taxes are exorbitant and people who cannot afford to live there need to move to a less expensive state. The other alternative is tell the local politicians you are tired of paying for silly services, paying for illegals in the city and tired of paying some of the highest taxes of any city in America. FOR WHAT?
There are special things that can be seen near any home. It does not require a waste of big money and using vast quantities of fuel, energy and creating certain amounts of pollution to enjoy what is right nearby.The boardwalk is worth seeing once but it's nothing that special.
I believe there should be no billionaires; and that billionaires need to to pay more. However the fury over his wedding is dumb and a waste of time. Wealthy people wealthying. Who cares.
No, I was referring to the statement you made. And calling something “anecdotal” isn’t denying its existence, it’s putting it in context. Context is’nt your friend in this exchange.So you can deny they exist. No thanks. If your argument is denial, I guess I'm wasting my time.
Might I suggest looking up your local city council minutes. I'm guessing, as is here, 90% of the applications involve small, independent business.
Everyone can start a business. Small business is the engine of the economy.
Small businesses contributed 55 percent of the total net job creation from 2013 to 2023
Small businesses—firms with 249 or fewer employees—accounted for 99 percent of the 5.6 million firms covered under Unemployment Insurance in the first quarter of 2023. Small Business Week, April 28–May 4, celebrates these businesses contributions to the economy. Over the last ten years, those...www.bls.gov
Don't start a business. You've already defeated yourself.
Meanwhile, in the real world of collective anecdotes, I bring you an entire district of small business owners.
MidTown Reno - a Unique Place for Everyone to Gather
MidTown Reno, we're more than a district; we're a vibrant community hub that beckons locals and visitors alike with our unique blend of offerings. Boasting an array of distinctive shops, a paradise for discerning shoppers seeking one-of-a-kind finds. Food enthusiasts revel in our diverse...www.renomidtown.com
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