Jeff Bezos’ $500,000,000 yacht is a need?

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💸 Jeff Bezos' $500,000,000 yacht: Luxury or Necessity? Opulent world of billionaires.

[@RebasUno]

From which episode is this?

[@AcquiredFM]

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[@mohit4902]

This group is stupid af if they think "its an expense" bezos needs to pay tax and stop this bs, or go to jail

[@EliAlexanderClark]

His legal team did absolute acrobatics and backflips in order to justify a $500 million yacht as a business NEED.

[@scottsterling4713]

What are you talking about? Bezo’s legal team prob just talked to the treasurer and that person just exempted bezo. Anyone can get evade paying taxes, it’s up to the treasury to investigate but they won’t investigate Bezo

[@TalkingDonkeyz]

no you don’t get it. they weren’t business expenses for tax purposes. just positive roi investments. irs aren’t that dumb

[@quentonmillstid850]

​@@scottsterling4713 I know the treasurer and that's cap lol. If so I'd be surprised she'd do that.

[@scottsterling4713]

@@quentonmillstid850 it’s not “cap”. If you’re that wealthy and powerful, you merely avoid paying taxes very easily, look at Epstein. Guy literally had a dungeon where he abused young women, everyone at the top level of government knew about it, yet he wasn’t prosecuted until it fully became public knowledge. Bezo doesn’t have to declare to the public his personal earnings, only to Uncle Sam, and guess what? Uncle Sam is besties with Bezo.

[@danpang5404]

@@scottsterling4713 really, anyone can evade taxes? Try not paying your taxes and see how long it takes before someone is knocking on your door.

[@azouitinesaad3856]

jeff bezos himself have a little jeff bezos attached to him

[@zechnewton]

He’s Dr Evil and he has a mini me

[@Eden-nd7rg]

😂

[@manicpepsicola3431]

​@@zechnewton bald and everything

[@sumo-ninja]

@@zechnewton aaah shit you beat me to it

[@dirtydanglesferdaaa6057]

Yuck dude

[@TheMaro57]

That’s why he needed the tax break

[@ezman001]

lmao Right👉

[@jmd489]

The yachts and jets ARE the tax break

[@jorden9821]

Less money to the gov? Count me IN!

[@luiscuba9188]

@@jmd489thats ontop of the tax breaks he gets.

[@TheMaro57]

@@jorden9821 yeah but the reason behind taxing is the social services. Rich people do not use social services

[@pastamane]

Just remember, these are the billionaires that ask us to donate our money when they have money that can last them 1,000 lifetimes

[@zacharyvandyke1717]

Yep and alot of the same "altruistic" people who love them hate us when we are normal working people...

[@sticy5399]

​@@zacharyvandyke1717 I don't think altruistic people like billionaires.

[@DukeofEarl]

More like 30,000 lifetimes if your lifetime earnings are $5,000,000, ignoring interest.

[@dracomalfoy1245]

Hey youtube if you're watching.please stop giving me these kind of business guy explainer type videos.

[@Professorgenitals]

Unfortunately that's not gonna happen , there's a million of these guys selling bullshit courses

[@kotangensische]

lmao youtube is like a god

[@foppagunther8559]

step 1. stop watching

[@Whocares0009]

KZbin has become garbage nowadays. It was good 3-4 years ago

[@thefinessekid7358]

​@@kotangensische kids praying to the algorithm...

[@ConcreteBarber661]

Oh yeah it’s for getting deals done😂

[@kreep3r]

Yup getting the deals done with the childs parents 😂

[@mehst4129]

Epstein’s cousin’s yacht

[@christophermiles6643]

Well take me on the cruise my wife is your biggest customer

[@AL-np5br]

I feel this pain

[@flipflopsneeded]

Now people get why their used and why a Supreme Court judge should never be gift those items. 🎉

[@-RajSharma-]

I got a brain glitch trying to read your comment

[@Yusuf_Vizier]

With the amount of people that are starving to death... I'm completely shocked there is not a revolution against billionaires.

[@lifeisgood070]

Billionaires aren't the ones making people starve.... you could take all the money in the world and people would still die. Just go pick an issue and solve it if you're that upset.

[@Yusuf_Vizier]

@@lifeisgood070 You're disgusting human. Because we can't save everyone let's save no one. And that's why the human experiment is a complete and utter fail.

[@Ry-pn2hy]

@@lifeisgood070 Besides the fact that there is a correlation between a starving population & income inequality. But you seem very passionate, so go with your gut, ignore the data.

[@leggoentertainment2947]

​@@lifeisgood070 he's picking billionaires for a reason. We are all getting poorer cause of these ass...l.s. That's why they cut of the heads of the aristocratie with the french revolution. We need a new one or democracy will die. And we need it now. Cause without democracy, there will be another world war. You choose the lives of your children or the lives of these billionaires. Not acting is a choice. And i care for my children.

[@powerhouseinco9664]

​@@Ry-pn2hy correlation isn't causation. Solve the problem not the symptom, simple logic!!

[@johncoursey2582]

Tell me you're paid to justify the existence of billionaires without telling me you're paid to justify the existence of billionaires.

[@jolanderphilip]

The only solution for thieves is a short drop and a sudden stop

[@sisk22]

How many thousands of millionaires did Jeff Bezos create? How many people does he employ?

[@johncoursey2582]

@@sisk22 he didn't create any millionaires, the workers did. He didn't create any jobs either, the economy did. He's not benevolent, he's a leach.

[@sisk22]

@@johncoursey2582 😂😂😂 sounds like a typical liberal. Mad at successful people. If he didn’t create them, and it was all the workers, why didn’t they go do it? They’d rather make 60k a year versus 100+ billion?

[@md8355]

Shuuturhol

[@lisafilly464]

Yet us little people can’t have a gas stove. Bunch of jerks and hypocrites

[@rahmircarr6900]

@@pleasestoptalking6245 jeff bezos parents where rich asf and were able to put him in a position to be successful. this whole “get up and make more money and you can be like them attitude” is puuurrreeeeeeee bullshit

[@lisafilly464]

@@pleasestoptalking6245 please stop talking for real🤣especially when you have no idea what you’re talking about. I never complained about their wealth and think they should keep everything they’ve earned. But don’t try and take away things from people who’ve earned what they have as well. So please stop talking when you can’t comprehend an opinion.

[@oscard7813]

I think he means about going electric instead of sticking with gas while these Rich folks use all the gas and pollute more than whole city together lmao but we the little people can’t even have a diesel anymore

[@Mightbeyourdad]

Should’ve tried harder

[@hbgriss]

You should change your fake mews channel clown.

[@AliFromLA]

His private jet is called *Jet Bezos* ✈️ 😂

[@crazypigs100]

Give me back plastic straws!!!

[@suzyq7725]

It's like having a private island.

[@Stegostomatidae]

It's significantly more expensive than having a private island.

[@arkadandfortuna1582]

That so-called small chase yacht is their version of a small tender vessel which a lot of medium to large size yachts have, and is pretty common. Depending on your destination, your yacht might be too big or not enough available births and therefore is needed to disembark to shore when at a mooring boey.

[@kaprosuchian880]

If I'm not mistaken, he also has a 75 meter support yacht by Damen to carry all the toys. No garage on the mothership.

[@bigmonke7661]

His yacht has a chase yacht (zooms in on a boat instead of the other yacht)

[@kaseywahl]

Oh so that's why he can't pay his workers a livable wage

[@UTP_ENT]

That job doesn’t deserve it. It’s easy af to do that job it should be reserved high school kids.

[@kaseywahl]

@@UTP_ENT That's a ridiculous argument, considering high school kids can't work 8-5 during school hours, generally aren't allowed to work in warehouses, and even if they could, the majority of people who work for Amazon are not high school students. When you say that job doesn't deserve a livable wage, you're literally saying that there's a full-time job that doesn't deserve to be paid a livable wage. What kind of dystopian world do you want to live in where only people who work extraordinarily difficult jobs are afforded the right to live with wages that allow people to meet their basic needs? Get out of here with that bootlicking nonsense.

[@ooongaboonga2680]

Oh no he can still easily pay his employees a liveable wage, that yacht is worth 0.33% of his current net worth😊 what a good person he is

[@MrBeetsGaming]

He does pay a livable wage.... That's why so many people work for him.

[@MrBeetsGaming]

@@ooongaboonga2680 He already pays a livable wage, cry harder.

[@profiskipinternational4402]

Jeff's 500 million toy is far higher by costs. Its 57,000 per hour. 24 hr x 7d x 52 weeks. Plus the invesrment to build it over 3 years and financing for 10 years. 😊 Jeff only rent it back yo have some extra tax benefits.

[@wsoares89]

I love when people with no money relative to who they are talking about talk about people with a ton of money. It's like when you see those guys who don't play basketball try to talk about and break down NBA stuff

[@fernandoheinz5685]

Beira-Rio Football Stadium, the most beautiful in Brazil

[@scottwilliams4963]

It’s the equivalent of buying an island, or owning a high priced house in Manhattan, and putting cameras in the walls.

[@bomboclaat1509]

The chase yacht makes sense tho. They be designed so you can do a little more on the water and not constantly move around your massive yacht.

[@fine_gold]

Theyre pieces of art. A proper yacht is like a battleship without the firepower. It screams power.

[@tgd02]

Then wheres the power?

[@TheRealWheelz]

Tax write offs are ridiculous 🙄

[@kirkjohnson6638]

Why anyone would consider it to be influential to be allowed to spend time on a luxury yacht or private plane is beyond me. I'd take a pitcher of iced tea and a porch swing on a cabin in the woods looking over pretty river anyday.

[@solominded]

It's mobile offices. You need a nice place for dignitaries to come and feel safe and accommodated. A little smoozing goes a long way, we all want to feel important in the end of the day.

[@profd808]

You channel has to go viral man!!!!

[@rileybrock344]

They also get to write those yachts and jets off as expenses on taxes because they are using them with high end customers. System is a little fucked for that but hey whatever

[@turtles6283]

They definitely can not just write off tons of boat fuel, it probably is just being driven in some remote island state

[@yungdoji5235]

@@turtles6283you don’t drive a boat… you con it ~Papa Jim

[@kickapoo1390]

People, a yacht is only an asset for tax purposes. Don't let anyone tell you they are a good buy because it's an asset.

[@jessegoodyear5547]

It's a "business experience" for the "company" so they don't even pay for them..

[@Julemand69]

He needs to be absurd, to attract other absurd people willing to make him more absurd

[@ryanweinger9578]

In a yacht you are glisting or anchored and only running a generator usually

[@andrewferguson6901]

Ooooh well that's just so much better. Glad they're only using the engine on their private yacht SOME of the time

[@joaquimliengme4989]

I love those podcast

[@MarkG-yr6un]

no boat in the world costs 25k an hour just in fuel 😂

[@Monkey80llx]

Overall operating costs

[@HeyhitmeBAM]

You would be surprised.

[@selvinlims810]

I swear these people swear they know every rich persons move 😂🤦‍♂️

[@meair]

the one nice thing about yachts being bought, is that it circulates money from rich people instead of sitting in their bank accounts

[@zekemaverick5652]

That's half the cost of a stadium...

[@commoncents9732]

No plane costs $25K an hour to operate.....nor staff.

[@Martin.H98]

No ship either 🤣

[@commoncents9732]

@@Martin.H98 I mean I don't know much about ships/fuel costs but if either one was to cost $25K an hour I would lean towards a ship. Maybe he is accounting for staff but he specifically said fuel so I'm not sure what he is talking about honestly.

[@Martin.H98]

The global average is around 634$/mt so if it uses 25k per hour the ship is using 39mt per hour which is sky high 🤣

[@brianafc]

That last bit, they used to ring epstein

[@insethurdle88]

I can assure you that Yacht does not use $25k/hr in fuel

[@andybaldman]

Imagine if everyone just agreed to stop using Amazon tomorrow?

[@thatsawesome2060]

Regular joe: i need this old car, and can i include fuel as tax break. IRS: no Billionaire: this private jet, and yatch is necessary business cost. IRS: ok

[@tallybobba]

25k to a billionaire is literally like an average person spending $20

[@J-S2014]

I dont know what kind of yaught even holds 25000 worth of fuel let alone burn that per hour

[@rikrobbertsen3343]

Its fun how every business is like "yeah this super impressive yacht/building/villa is needed so we get better deals"...... In a lot of definitions that is corruption and bribery.

[@floorsinbower8612]

A chase yacht? Looked like a regular boat to me

[@fjb6631]

Screwing us on Amazon

[@momentsoftriumph5972]

I remember he had to get a historical bridge destroyed and reconstructed because this Yacht was too big to get out of the port 😂

[@wow_therefoki6487]

YOUR CHANNEL IS AMAZING! YOU SHOULD HAVE WAY MORE RECOGNITION…THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME!!!

[@aka104]

Disheartened by Bezos' choices. Thought his intellect would be aimed at resolving pressing global concerns, yet he appears caught up in some kind of vanity trap. #Bezos #WorldProblems

[@druhi669]

They get to live like this while were slaves to the system

[@juliusjager3116]

It is not their fault that you are not successful in life. Instead of blaming the system you should try to improve your life

[@xINSAN1TYx]

@@juliusjager3116the system can be blamed when the 1% control 70% of all money in circulation currently.

[@jacoblape]

What can you do

[@mrtn1566]

@@juliusjager3116 What a bootlicker

[@loudthebest7546]

@@juliusjager3116 Why are you defending billionaires? You’re an average joe, you should be advocating for the work class instead of falling under the illusion that can you somehow be as wealthy as these people if you just work hard enough. Bezos was given $300,00 to start Amazon

[@mrdivinelightning]

Jeff bezos has his own mini Jeff bezos

[@Jamalcrawford123]

Y’all straight up said everything without saying anything if know i mean

[@SamSung-ww3rp]

So why raise the minimum limit for free shipping. Complete greed!

[@lensperspective9753]

You also get personal loans based off assets, yacht is a home, boat ,and transportation, lots of legao loopholes, which is why people should stop making things illegal

[@hiter5032]

What customers play billionaire style use and for whatever they want to

[@vincentruben4365]

A BILLIONAIRE=TOO MUCH POWER IN THE HANDS OF 1 PERSON

[@thatfamily9355]

People with that much money need to help people, and need help themselves

[@jamiemackenzie6540]

His new yacht at least doesn't have missiles (maybe).

[@kloppanator]

"Chase yacht" zooms in on a small speed boat... No no no, the support yacht... is 246ft long

[@timelkin838]

Look like his chase yacht had its own, too

[@riamriam6758]

It’s called a ghost ship. And there’s people who have mega yachts, with a super yacht as a ghost ship, and the super yacht ghost ship has its own ghost ship with smaller yachts and helicopters parked on them.

[@Caleb1874ya]

Oh people don’t realize just to pull up to a dock with a yacht costs like $18,000/night/day just to “park” there… I was on a 150 ft yacht in St. Petersburg Florida and that was the cost per 24 hr period… I almost spit my drink out.. and sure they can afford it but that’s still just wild how much it costs just to even OWN a yacht…

[@davidmurray1631]

Jeff should go to jail for fraud period. No one needs a super yacht to close a deal that could be done at a lunch meeting.

[@viruspunk420]

why go to a beautiful resort with your loved ones when you could go to a public pool for vacation?

[@laurentdrozin812]

That's what you have to have in order to buy yourself a Supreme Court Judge or a couple of Senators.

[@Moxzot]

There is no way it's $25k an hour, it would cost more per year to run the boat than it would to buy the boat

[@Rulusan]

This is how they skirt taxes. Put everything in the businesses assets BOOM no taxes for me everything is a write-off.

[@prickayeey8420]

Meanwhile i cant get a plastic straw with my mc’dons

[@IamTheaveragegamer]

Yeah Bezos has to court people, sure.

[@mikebar42]

I guess the bonus is when you get them out on the water, they can't say no... Otherwise they don't make it back to shore.

[@henkhandelaar]

If it f***s floats or flies.... rent it

[@johnbraucher1499]

And we all pay for it. Thats what most do not realize.

[@successfulusername]

How so?

[@TheSeawolf277]

@@successfulusername we pay all of our taxes, meanwhile these goons buy these billion dollar yachts and jets and write them off as business expenses, saving tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars a year on taxes

[@successfulusername]

@@TheSeawolf277 that’s what I thought he meant. That’s 100% not how taxes work. Amazon is a corporation which makes it an entirely different entity than Jeff Bezos. So how could Bezos pay for it and someone that doesn’t own it claim it on their taxes? I bought a car- can you claim that as an expense? Also, to claim something as a business expense, a certain amount of usage has to be proven to be directly business related. Which means if Bezos spends a month in the Bahamas- Amazon would have to spend at least a month yachting clients. And we are just going to set aside that sales tax on the purchase, fuel, maintenance, and payroll taxes are not exempt items and would still be paid.

[@flipnotrab]

Nope! Jets are transportation and yachts are entertainment. BIG difference as far as tax deductions go.

[@karlheinz4059]

its that sweet new printed money

[@johnnyringo2690]

These are the same people telling us to get rid of our cars because of a carbon footprint. Sounds like they are the entire foot.

[@makkenji6053]

That's just 2 jets

[@elitecass1453]

“Underpriced assets”

[@donsolos]

It's called inflation isn't going away

[@leggiboi]

People like this exist yet I still have to feel guilty about hitting "no tip" when I'm buying a coke at the gas station

[@badburrito-ti5wr]

Private jets, private helos, private yatchs and WARS create most of the greenhouse gasses, compared to small businesses and residential appliences.

[@codyjarvis4557]

And me not recycling and leaving the water running is destroying the world…… Right.

[@drgoutbreak7934]

I mean 25k to us is like 25 bucks to him

[@M102]

i have to plan my money so i can afford food

[@techblade837]

Yes but my ford escape is destroying the enviroment and must be stopped

[@pw6498]

They had Trudope hiding in the bilge bathroom, during the lockdown truck convoy. That's why he couldn't meet with the ppl, but locked everything down, that a Home Depot order took 48+ hrs, but could get same product through amazon over night !!

[@richarddavis2791]

Jeff even has a chase jeff

[@mpty2022]

still they charge us for a grocery bag

[@gtarmasta7978]

Crazy how some one person can own close to a trillion dollars and do absolutely nothing with it except try to get tax breaks.

[@joesteel7409]

They also charter them out and make bank.

[@cko9672]

It's a necessity!! I think I'll get ,maybe three🤔will that be enough though i wonder.!!

[@thegrayman69]

But his company is the one telling you their worried about the environment

[@michaeltye2359]

This is like end of days level ridiculous

[@xEnder515]

A perfect example of taxing the shit out of these guys

[@inkarnation6512]

Nah yall just want to get your grubby little hands on some money without working for it lmao

[@xEnder515]

@@inkarnation6512 I already have my grubby little hands on money. I don't need yours. Thanks.

[@mg-ew2xf]

​@@inkarnation6512the sad thing is how easy they tricked ignorant fools like you tito thinking they've earned it. They've exploited the public. Taxes are just taking money back from the ones who stole it.

[@crowbaril903]

Yeah it’s called a LLC

[@thepizzabicycle]

It’s a crazy yacht but it doesn’t burn $25k of fuel an hour.

[@gxbrielwatches4088]

Operating costs includes everything, paying all the employees, fuel, docking fees etc. Docking fees alone can be more than 100k a day in Monaco

[@ravennichols5481]

If you ever worked at Amazon you know why Jeff bezos is rich.

[@advtvjkige1897]

Slave master

[@Drivelinemgt]

It’s more like 25 grand every 3 days.

[@peterseeganna8238]

And driving a V8 is hurting the environment

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

If you watch those yacht trackers they're really not on the much the people that own it, but they are always out to see in the summer months filled with whatever celebrity a hole is freeloading that week

[@nathanielhanson216]

What is so fucked up is that there are actually LEGAL ways rich people use to avoid paying taxes. He has a entire team dedicated to it. The system and rules are so messed up. Even Trump blatantly said the system is messed up there are and him and everyother rich person use them.