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In reply to the discussion: Oscar Mayer heir Chuck Collins on how billionaires are fleecing everyone [View all]
flashman13
(2,031 posts)5. You are being rather judgemental. You seem to be condemning someone for his accidental birth.
I don't know enough about the man to have an opinion. I just said not everyone wants power.
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Oscar Mayer heir Chuck Collins on how billionaires are fleecing everyone [View all]
erronis
Oct 2025
OP
Would that he were committed to the "common good" enough to run for a senate seat & then get chosen as VP when
ancianita
Oct 2025
#2
Then people needn't listen to richies who walk away. Again, he's safely virtue signaling in his catbird seat.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#4
You are being rather judgemental. You seem to be condemning someone for his accidental birth.
flashman13
Oct 2025
#5
You mean the man who gave away his inherited millions to progressive causes when he was in his twenties?
Hekate
Oct 2025
#7
Please enlighten me about what those progressive causes were. I'm unfamiliar.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#10
All the better. AND he still literally fills stadiums with his "Fighting Oligarchy" speeches.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#25
I hear you. Sorry I'm just not well read re non-Democrats. I wore his campaign button when he first ran for president
ancianita
Oct 2025
#31
So no. Books are good, rallies that promote the ideas of the books are better.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#66
Per another post, his current net worth's around $250,000. His inheritance (that he gave away decades ago) was $500,000.
Celerity
Oct 2025
#64
When I read the words "virtue signaling" I know it's time to go read a another post somewhere else.
NBachers
Oct 2025
#15
Fine. I don't dispute that he lived by his principles, but question what material good he
ancianita
Oct 2025
#36
That's your question. MY question is what material good did he ever do to get this kind of attention.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#40
That's beside the point. He's written and said "quite a bit," but absolutely no one here can link to where he's
ancianita
Oct 2025
#42
Maybe because he feels the best way he can contribute is through scholarship and raising awareness.
Pacifist Patriot
Oct 2025
#45
Okay. I get your reasoning and the fact of his mere millionaire status. Mine is that
ancianita
Oct 2025
#52
Of course not. I stated a "Would that he..." That statement is aspirational opinion, not a test.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#62
What did you mean by listing them?that they'd fail what you allege is a "test"?How did you get that I'm applying a test?
ancianita
Oct 2025
#70
Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar F. Mayer, founder of Oscar Mayer meat processing. $500,000?
ancianita
Oct 2025
#69
I've given sufficient reasons. All for one post about wishing he were committed to doing something that
ancianita
Oct 2025
#61
This "gazillionaire" inherited $500,000 (about $1.5M today). Not even close to billionaire status.
Pacifist Patriot
Oct 2025
#46
There are good reasons. If he wants potential power to rein in the .01%, he's got to get some experience somewhere.
ancianita
Oct 2025
#30
I don't follow the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" philosophy as rigidly as some.
DFW
Oct 2025
#6
It's too bad more people don't understand this - you don't get to be a billionaire by paying your employees well.....
groundloop
Oct 2025
#8
"Pretty much everything you care about is undermined by that concentration of wealth and power..."
OldBaldy1701E
Oct 2025
#29