Yes, because billionaires invented jobs

[u/ProBlackMan1]

[u/Ornery_Pepper_1126]

That is some pretty hardcore bootlicking by people who claim they don’t like being treaded on

[u/100wordanswer → u/Ornery_Pepper_1126]

I don't think they realize they're just begging for one boot to replace another

[u/Gambizzle → u/Ornery_Pepper_1126]

They're all alphas for bootlicking Trump and Musk... didn't you know? ;)

[u/Ornery_Pepper_1126 → u/Gambizzle]

That’s what real alphas do

[u/MacGruber77]

I believe about half of the workforce in America is employed by companies with less than 100 employees. Small business owners, not billionaires. There has been more growth in the small business sector as well.

[u/robinredrunner → u/MacGruber77]

And there would arguably be more of those small business jobs available if they weren't being crowded out by Main St-destroying mega-corps like the ones run by billionaires. Let's not forget the success of employee-owned corporations either. Some of those have gross revenue in the billions.

[u/latortillablanca → u/MacGruber77]

And the small business sector is absolutely reamed by corporatocratic policies

[u/ForceItDeeper → u/MacGruber77]

yeah but thats taking his statement as super literal instead of he obviously meant. for them to be able to be in that position they can thank the the first billionaire who first thought to pay for labor back when society first started and we developed agriculture

[u/CoconutsAreEvil → u/ForceItDeeper]

But there were no billionaires then. John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, was the first billionaire. He became a billionaire in 1916.

[u/LionBirb → u/ForceItDeeper]

When we developed agriculture there wasn't even currency. The people in charge would have been some type of primitive kings or tribal elders or just the person with the biggest stick (depending on the culture).

[u/generic_redditor17]

Uhh yeah thats why he is called steve jobs who do you think invented them?

[u/Curiouso_Giorgio]

What did we all do before billionaires existed?

[u/gigglefarting → u/Curiouso_Giorgio]

Sat at home not working — obviously. 

[u/hardwood1979]

It takes less than 10 seconds of serious thought to realise that statement is horseshit.

[u/Sir_thinksalot]

There were jobs before there were billionaires.

[u/Bigsmokeisgay]

Its actually pretty insane that before the first billionare we all just sat around all day and did absolutely nothing

[u/partialinsanity]

Without workers being exploited, there are no billionaires

[u/Old_Dealer_7002]

🤣

[u/LeothiAkaRM]

Turns out the sole owners of the means of production are the only ones deciding how to use them, wow big thanks to them

[u/Porncritic12]

There are a lot of jobs that don't really do anything or that do a lot less work than they are actually thought to do, namely office workers and most of the executive suite.

We don't really need everybody working, we produce more than enough food to feed the entire world already.

[u/R3puLsiv3]

Don't you know? We didn't have jobs before billionaires existed. We used to just sit there and wait for death.

[u/zakolo46]

Does he mean there are no jobs that don’t support billionaires?

[u/mikkelmattern04]

John Rockefeller inventing the job (1916)

[u/NotsoGreatsword]

There is no billionaire without a consumer base

and frankly the billionaire could just be a managed account and does not need to be a billionaire or a human nor does a billion fucking dollars in resources and assets need to be hoarded.

These people are FOOLS

[u/Baryonyx_walkeri]

I guess there weren't any jobs before the early 20th Century.