@rbreich Plus the estimated ~$7m buying up cinema tickets in empty cinemas, to make sure the ticket sales did not indicate a flop (not much he can do about the reviews though).

@rbreich meanwhile, people ran out of unemployment benefits and are now stuck with no money.

@rbreich takes money to make money

@rbreich alt-text

Robert Reich posted elsewhere:

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Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill -- despite profits hitting $90B -- thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund.

Quite a return on investment, huh?
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#alttext #alt4you #Amazon #JeffBezos #TaxTheRich #FairShare #CorporateDeadbeats #USpol

@rbreich funny given that kamala had twice as many billionairs backing her and still lost lol

Hey Sam's dad, you don't have to post a screenshot of your Bluesky post to Mastodon. You can just post the same thing to both networks.

@rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich @Kiwiana13C I no longer buy from Amazon

@rbreich

We can only hope that the AI bubble in it pops, pops all these tech platforms as well.

I’m not enthusiastic about it because of the economic wreckage, but wreckage seems inevitable. In order to weather it well we would need to have people in charge of Congress and the federal bank who are more interested in making people whole, then paper bring over the gigantic Ponzi scheme of today’s economy

@rbreich in a feudal society, paying tribute to the king is the only way to maintain one's privileges. Boycott all the tribute-payers and they will have something to think about.