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Chicago Teachers Union “Endorses” Guillotine Built By Protesters Outside Jeff Bezos’ House

by mosesman

  • Chicago Teachers Union “Endorses” Guillotine Built By Protesters Outside Jeff Bezos’ House
    by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
    Like they say, a rising tide lifts all boats, and while hundreds of thousands of newly minted Robinhood traders have been brought along for the ride as tech valuations soared during the spring and summer, the real winners – as always – will be the insiders, like CEO Jeff Bezos, who saw his personal wealth eclipse $200 billion this week.
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    Sophisticated people understand that market valuations fluctuate often, sometimes dramatically, and that what goes up, typically, must come down. Whatever changes his net wealth has undergone on paper, he still owns roughly the same list of assets from before the pandemic. But to America’s most dedicated leftists, Bezos latest personal wealth milestone was a PR opportunity that couldn’t be passed up. And so a group of crypto-communists purporting to be former Amazon employees constructed a guillotine – yes, an actual working guillotine – outside of Bezos’ home in Chicago.
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    Officially, the “protest” was organized to call for a $30 minimum wage, which is double the $15 minimum wage that is now in place in some of America’s most costly cities.
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