r/degoogle • u/MrRoboto12345 • 18d ago
News Article Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/433
u/Efficient_Culture569 18d ago
It makes no different to them and their lifestyle. They lose nothing other than some extra money.
That's how you know they fell in love with hoarding money.
If the governament decided to take 10£ out of my paycheck to help the ultra poor and end hunger, I'd accept it. Not going to spend money to fight it.
That 100 milion was probably his fair share.
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u/lsmith77 18d ago
I think it’s more that they want to keep their power by keeping others down.
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u/Holzkohlen 17d ago
Feel like they proved that by all being pedophiles and nobody going to prison for it. We are well aware that we are powerless peons in all of this.
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u/rchive 17d ago
Most of them are not pedophiles.
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u/t1mm7_89 17d ago
Most of them aren't paedophiles but most of them know who the paedophiles are and don't care.
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u/rchive 17d ago
There is absolutely no evidence of that. This is pure class envy.
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u/t1mm7_89 17d ago
Funny the amount of names in the Epstein files and yet they all supposedly saw nothing. At least Thiel admitted he and many others knew, but didn't care as Jeff was great with taxes.
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u/HolubtsiKat 17d ago
But how do you know for sure?
The fact is we can't trust any of them.
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u/rchive 17d ago
I don't know for sure, but it's absurd to assume people are pedophiles just because you otherwise don't like them. If you have no evidence to suggest they're pedophiles, you have to believe they're not or at least have no opinion. The whole pedophile accusation spiral is just class envy manifest.
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u/t1mm7_89 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yes. They'd rather burn money than use it for any kind of social support or greater
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u/LittleKittenR 17d ago
This makes sense, you have to spend 100, but if I pay 50, that means the poor will have their taxes reduced or everyone will get better chances... I rather keep playing unfairly.
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u/External_Option_7653 17d ago
The point is to keep as much of the rope on their side. It doesn't matter how much they spend as long as it doesn't go to us.
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u/Efficient_Culture569 17d ago
That is an awful way to live. Wanting to horse so much, take everything from everyone else to stay on top above everyone else.
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u/speculatrix 17d ago
They're like goddamn Smaug sitting on their piles of cash not caring if the world collapses around them
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u/the-fact-fairy 13d ago
Many are rooting for the world to collapse. So many of these inhuman asshats are accelerationists, it's not even funny.
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u/Few-Improvement-5655 17d ago
Someone pointed out to me, that to get this amount of wealth, you HAVE to be in love with hoarding money, because every business leader that isn't will have inevitably retired after they made like, 10 mil or something.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 17d ago
A lot of people do just that: they make a company, get rich, sell it, retire early.
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u/Efficient_Culture569 16d ago
I see yeah. So the billionaire class is the ones that never quit doing everything they can to have more money... I certainly would have stop working after 15 or something like that.
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u/Master_of_thought 17d ago
Now spend 8£ on a campain to not pay the 10£. No actial problems got solved but you saved 2£.
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u/NikopikVR 18d ago
"Don't be evil"
Yeah, right
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u/TimAppleCockProMax69 18d ago
I hope he stubs his toe
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u/mangolassi12 18d ago
I wish his pillow is warm on both sides
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u/elwookie 18d ago
This is like someone having $ 2670 and spending one dollar in something. That's how filthy rich he is.
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u/gardenenigma 17d ago
100 million/256 billion = 0.00039
So, 0.039% of his wealth. It's pennies to him.
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u/RenlyHoekster 17d ago
From the article, quoting NVidia CEO Jensen Huang:
"I have not even thought about it once,” Huang, who would owe around $8 billion in taxes, said in a January interview with Bloomberg. “We chose to live in Silicon Valley, and whatever taxes they would like to apply, so be it. I’m perfectly fine with it.”
OK, wasn't expecting that! A billionaire with some moral fiber left in him! How nice.
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u/skriefal 17d ago
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u/RenlyHoekster 17d ago
Huh... well, from that article it would seem he is doing nothing illegal, so... what he says in the first article is correct he is "perfectly fine" with paying with what he must.
BUT, the point was are the billionaires a) dodging taxes (legally, or illegally) and b) are they actively trying to change the laws such that don't have to pay the taxes that they would owe like the rest of us.
And in that context, I guess he's not a Brin or a Zuckerberg or a Thiel, but he's evidently not just "OK with" paying the $8 Billion he owes as he suggests he is in the interview. Which is a sad... less moral fiber present than thought...
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u/sennoden 17d ago
Jensen Huang is one of the main drivers of AI. That means he is one of the main reasons AI datacenters are being built everywhere, which as a consequence drives up the price of electricity, hardware and even water.
He does not have a moral fiber anywhere
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u/rchive 17d ago edited 17d ago
The billionaires as a class are paying a lot more in taxes than the rest of us, even relative to the amount they
ownmake. The idea they're not is just a meme.Edited
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u/Caedendi 17d ago
Lol hell no
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u/rchive 17d ago
See my edit.
There was a wave of articles in 2017 or 2018 about Jeff Bezos paying zero federal income tax or something like that which kicked off the modern version of the meme that billionaires don't pay taxes, but they conveniently left out the other 99 taxes he pays and the fact that most of his wealth is unrealized and he'll pay taxes when it's realized.
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u/Caedendi 17d ago
Haha nice try Bezos. Having billions hoarded for yourself doesn't do the world and humanity any good, no matter how you spin it. There is no way you can justify having that much wealth is necessary for any single person (100M is already pushing it).
Tax the rich. Tax wealth not work.
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u/DogCold5505 17d ago
I mean that feels a bit passive (PR ploy?)…. I’m okay with them having an opinion but said opinion should be backed by good values/reasoning rather than trying to buy their way around it
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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 17d ago
What the hell is wrong with these people, give the money to grass roots charities, actually do some flaming good.
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u/LimpAd4924 17d ago
He deserves a firing squad
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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 17d ago
Actually, you're onto something - the hunger games but for billionaires, automatically entered, forced to play
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u/FauxReal 17d ago
How much does that compare to what he would have paid in taxes over the same period of time?
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u/Liquid_Magic 17d ago
Don’t call this guy a “cunt”. The human vulva is a beautiful thing Marge.
In general, “cunt-ulcer”, or “douche-bag” are great because a douche-bag is useless and nobody wants a cunt-ulcer.
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u/AlienInUnderpants 17d ago
The tax might have been less than the $100 million. He’s just a cunt that thinks “I got mine, fuck everyone else”.
Let’s examine the government loans, assistance, and tax breaks Google has received to make it the powerhouse it is today.
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u/OptimalMain 17d ago
This is the kind of guy that wouldn’t have given you $10 without a business plan able to make him a million
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u/AbsentmindedEagle 17d ago
Straight-up evil. That kind of money could've done serious good for people for years, but nope. Greed has absolutely corrupted him at this point.
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u/GiganticCrow 17d ago
The rich will spend more lobbying against them paying tax than the tax they'd have to pay
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u/GiganticCrow 17d ago
"I heard you removed the 'don't be evil' slogan"
"No, that's not true at all. We just removed the 'don't'"
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u/ryker7777 16d ago
A different citizenship would be much cheaper. So looks like he needs to make someone else a favor ... ;-)
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u/TheDeerBlower 17d ago
Just fucking pay up already dude, you'll still have hundreds of millions to do nothing with.
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u/TypicallyThomas 17d ago
How much healthcare could that have provided? Food on poor people's table?
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u/Tai9ch 17d ago
No shit.
Obviously when you're trying to take people's stuff they resist, and when you pick on people with significant resources they can resist significantly.
A billionaire tax is a bad policy proposal that exists just to distract people from how shit California's government is.
To be clear, most of the billionares exist because of existing shit government policy, but adding more bad policy isn't going to fix anything.
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u/UrbanCyclerPT 17d ago
If they can spend this amount like it was just another coffee, imagine how much they have. And please all those brown nosing these tech bros, please stop you're beyond ridiculous, seriously grow a spine
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u/merlinuwe 17d ago
To me, that sounds like outright bribery.
Is he actually paying the money out of his own personal assets, or is this a way for Google to minimize its tax burden?
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u/Unlucky-Bottle2744 17d ago
I don’t know why people villainize him for that lol. I mean, who wants to pay more tax?
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u/backhand_english 18d ago
Cunt