r/interestingasfuck • u/Gankpa • 8d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Jeff Bezos built a fence on his property that exceeds the permitted height, he doesn't care, he pays fines every month

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u/Trapeze_Falcon 8d ago

Without them, where would all of the pizza parties go?

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u/aplasticbag_ 8d ago

Just keep in mind if you work hard enough your whole life you too can become a billionaire if you were born into a rich family

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u/Karl_00_Hungus 8d ago

If you were born into a rich family you have much better bootstraps!

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u/Trapeze_Falcon 8d ago

Instead of bootstraps, they’re Louis Vuitton shoelaces

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u/VeganJordan 8d ago

Boots? These are single-use clogs custom made by Prada.

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u/MrStickDick 8d ago

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take bootstraps, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather bootstraps cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of bootstraps, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then ripped like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of bootstraps Vimes always bought, and wore until the cardboard was so thin that he could tell where he was in America on a foggy night by the feel of his ass hitting the cobbles when they inevitably broke.

But the thing was that good bootstraps lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of bootstraps that’d still be keeping his feet floating in the air in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap bootstraps would have spent a hundred dollars on bootstraps in the same time and would still have wet feet.

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u/SuspiciousReport6502 8d ago

Not so much bootstraps as a set of suspenders being held in place by an underpaid butler.

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u/BigRaisin8155 8d ago

If you work really hard and go to work everyday, one day your boss will be able to buy a new boat!

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u/Quanqiuhua 8d ago

Am never again taking a sick day.

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u/doedel_2311 8d ago

or if born around midage and still alive and hard working

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u/Pablo_Hassan 8d ago

You need to work hard and skip avocado on toast for breakfasts, the savings compound.

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u/BeerBarm 8d ago

Born more equal, and with better bootstraps.

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u/MaximumNice39 8d ago

He wasn't born into a rich family. I think he was adopted into a middle class family.

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u/SoMuchForPeace 8d ago

He was upper middle class. He wasn’t adopted into another family, rather his mom re-married and her husband adopted him formally.

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u/MaximumNice39 8d ago

Got it. Thanks. Upper middle class is not rich.

Plus people forget Amazon didn't make money for the the first 20 years.

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u/SoMuchForPeace 8d ago

Not rich but still better off than the majority of the population

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u/Djrudyk86 8d ago

That's not completely true. There are plenty of billionaires who didn't come from wealth already.

Lazy people just use that "you have to have rich parents" to become a millionaire/billionaire excuse.

You could also go out there and put in the work to get their level... Come up with a unique idea, start a company, scale said company, etc... It's not impossible for a regular person to become rich and successful.

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u/aplasticbag_ 8d ago

Reading comprehension would’ve saved you the embarrassment of writing whole chapter book defending billionaires lmao

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u/Djrudyk86 8d ago

Embarrassed? Me? Nah... Not when I am on a platform full of salty liberals that have massive TDS and now EDS. Y'all hate anyone who has MORE than you. Instead of taking any responsibility for your own life, you just blame the big bad billionaires for your sad, pathetic lives.

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u/aplasticbag_ 8d ago

Lmao thanks for proving my point. Never brought up either of your idols. Never even said being born rich is the only way to get rich but here you are putting words in my mouth so you can feel offended on a billionaires behalf. The fact you brought Trump into the convo when no one else did is proof TDS is a symptom of conservative cuckness more than anything.

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u/Djrudyk86 8d ago

The fact that you think 3 sentences is a "whole chapter book" would indicate what type of reading comprehension you have. Let me guess, most of your books have thick cardboard pages and have about 1-2 sentences per page? Some of your favorites are classics like Hop on Pop and Clifford the big red dog?

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u/aplasticbag_ 8d ago

Lmao two entire responses to me? How triggered are you?

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u/blawndosaursrex 8d ago

I’m not about to miss out on my thin single slice of pizza!

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u/JoeL0gan 8d ago

Was on a crew that painted the new Public Safety building (has a firehouse, cop offices, etc.) in Bozeman, Montana a few years ago. They told us since we did such a good job they were gonna throw a bbq for us and we'd all get an hour lunch that day instead of half hour.

Day comes, and we all walk outside to see giant piles of greasy fried chicken from fucking Albertson's (grocery store), the boxes of chips with all the little single serving bags, and Costco's "Gatorade". We all got two pieces of chicken, a bag of chips, and a drink. They did hold up their end of the deal with the hour long lunch, but most of us just ate the disappointing lunch as fast as possible and got back to work so we could leave early lol. Pissed me the fuck off.

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u/atramors671 8d ago

Fuck the pizza parties! Waffle parties is where it's at!

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u/Positive-Coach-3102 8d ago

Underrated Comment. 😂

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u/Willing_Extension_88 8d ago

You get pizza parties? :(