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Discriminatory and biased! Why is so much attention lavished on workers? Where's International Shareholders' day? Where is a day to celebrate wealth and those who have it? Both of those things are far more important than lowly labor.


> Both of those things are far more important than lowly labor.

That's why labor gets 1 day and owners get 364.

(Just realized that's roughly in the ballpark of CEO-to-worker wage ratio. ~290:1)


It's truly under-appreciated how much the rich do for the economy, and indeed, for the workers, by having some database rows in some computers with their names on them.


But the numbers next to their names aren't big enough. We're gonna have to gut social services and environmental protections in an attempt to pump those numbers up. Oh and definitely everything we can to cast unions in a bad light. Who needs a union? All they do is eat your hot chip.


In the united states, it is nov 18 (National Entrepreneur Day)


That’s just Black Friday.


I'd say that's just any other day


>Where's International Shareholders' day?

The entire rest of the goddamn year.



Well you do get admission to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting if you buy just a single share (and prepare your wallet for exorbitant Omaha hotel prices that weekend). Closest thing to that I can think of.


The stock is trading at only ~$800k USD and people complain that the 1% is a closed-off club.


Those are the class A shares. Class B stock is below $600.


I don't think you get invited to that meeting for holding BRK/B tho


> exorbitant Omaha hotel prices

That phrase doesn't compute. Except for "during that weekend", when of course they all jack up their rates knowing who is coming to stay.


That's a capital idea!


This is presumably sarcastic, but be aware you’re posting on HN where such opinions are held unironically.


Poe's Law applies.


Forget ordinary shareholders day, what about celebrating billionaires in some way? I can't recall that ever to happen./s


Reminds me of this [0] classic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4


It wasn’t even satire. It was based on this opinion from WSJ

> Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? > I would call attention to the parallels of Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316...


To read this gem: https://archive.is/zLjrX


"And we didn't even do anything wrong!" cracks me up each time


That took me entirely too damned long to realize that wasn't a real billionaire whining.

I prefer to raise awareness to the plight of the rich with music:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ej7dfPL7Kho&pp=ygUNc2F2ZSB0aGUgc...


We should hold it on Jan 6.




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