This is Lebron James' $171,000 bill after a night out at the bar

[Wicky_42]

Of course, rich people shouldn't pay more taxes - they deserve all their hard-earned cash, so they can buy $9 lagers and drink themselves stupid. At least he'd be able to afford emergency health care if he got alcohol poisoning...

Though the whole thing seems a bit fishy to me XD

 

[Wicky_42]

Should we really expect more from a person who gets paid a gazillion dollars to throw an inflated rubber bladder through a metallic ring?

I doubt one of the Taiwanese surgeons I watched removing several softball sized tumors from a young boy's face and then painstakingly reconstructing it got paid the same amount as that bill.

Problem is... only 1 person pays the doctor from that. Meanwhile, James gets paid for everybody who comes to watch him play.

It may not be fair, but that's basically capitalism in a nut shell: when it is NOT needed, you can charge as much as people are willing to pay.

And THAT's the root of the argument for socialised healthcare.

 

[Jonluw]

Seeing the salaries of people who contribute nothing but (in my opinion crappy) entertainment to society depresses me.

Couldn't he just have bought some normal wine and spent the rest of the money helping out some poverty-stricken village?

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Of course, rich people shouldn't pay more taxes - they deserve all their hard-earned cash, so they can buy $9 lagers and drink themselves stupid. At least he'd be able to afford emergency health care if he got alcohol poisoning...

Though the whole thing seems a bit fishy to me XD

I hate to defend him, but in a way, he's better than most of the truly wealthy people, who sit on billions, and seem to live purely to see if they can get higher up the worldwide rich list than someone else.

When he blows that much on stupid shit, and buys the $1000 'I'm rich' app, and orders a gold plated statue of himself as a mermaid for $3 million, it's all taxed heavily, and the cash flows back into the system. (I made up the mermaid thing, but I'm sure as hell not going to say he has't done it, I may be proved right in a few weeks.)

He, like many people who get suddenly rich, binge on spending, and the cash flows around. I'm also not criticising those who make it thru hard work, smart investing etc, and run huge companies , employing people, etc.

I guess the ones I'd like to deal with are the ones who inherit millions, not having worked for it, not having any inherent skill to share with the world, and while they probably spend stupidly, not putting a dent in the fortunes piled up the in bank, doing nothing. (Yes, I'm looking at Paris Hilton and the like.)

If I won £10 million on the lottery tomorrow, I have a niece going thru school, and she's doing quite well, I'd keep it fairly quiet, telling her I'd won a few hundred thousand instead. I'd assist her in her ambitions, and help make her life a bit easier, but I actually think it'd be robbing her of something important to just say 'here's a million - quit school and just arse about for the next 60 years.' I'd rather she had enough cash to pursue what she wants from life, not so much that she doesn't want to any more.

Oh and Dom Perignon, I remember from my liquour store days, we used to sell it at about $150 a bottle.

 

[Harbinger_]

I could definitely have spent the money that he spent on alcohol on more constructive things... Like lego and maybe a huge pancake breakfast.

 

[Ritalynn]

Meh, it's cheaper to buy out a club and invite your own people than do whatever this person did. If it was actually real... and not someone just taking inventory.

Long story short, who cares. They'll be broke after the NBA.

 

[Wicky_42]

Of course, rich people shouldn't pay more taxes - they deserve all their hard-earned cash, so they can buy $9 lagers and drink themselves stupid. At least he'd be able to afford emergency health care if he got alcohol poisoning...

Though the whole thing seems a bit fishy to me XD

I hate to defend him, but in a way, he's better than most of the truly wealthy people, who sit on billions, and seem to live purely to see if they can get higher up the worldwide rich list than someone else.

When he blows that much on stupid shit, and buys the $1000 'I'm rich' app, and orders a gold plated statue of himself as a mermaid for $3 million, it's all taxed heavily, and the cash flows back into the system. (I made up the mermaid thing, but I'm sure as hell not going to say he has't done it, I may be proved right in a few weeks.)

He, like many people who get suddenly rich, binge on spending, and the cash flows around. I'm also not criticising those who make it thru hard work, smart investing etc, and run huge companies , employing people, etc.

I guess the ones I'd like to deal with are the ones who inherit millions, not having worked for it, not having any inherent skill to share with the world, and while they probably spend stupidly, not putting a dent in the fortunes piled up the in bank, doing nothing. (Yes, I'm looking at Paris Hilton and the like.)

If I won £10 million on the lottery tomorrow, I have a niece going thru school, and she's doing quite well, I'd keep it fairly quiet, telling her I'd won a few hundred thousand instead. I'd assist her in her ambitions, and help make her life a bit easier, but I actually think it'd be robbing her of something important to just say 'here's a million - quit school and just arse about for the next 60 years.' I'd rather she had enough cash to pursue what she wants from life, not so much that she doesn't want to any more.

Oh and Dom Perignon, I remember from my liquour store days, we used to sell it at about $150 a bottle.

Oh yeah, but economic stimulation is the only good thing to come from this guy. Other wealthy people tend to not just sit on it; at the very least it's in a bank, and they're investing it, though it's much more likely that they have a whole investment portfolio in loads of other things. As I'm sure this guy does too, employing someone intelligent to manage his funds. The thing is, if he can afford to blow that much on booze, don't you think he has the capacity to be taxed a whole load more, and those taxes to be ploughed back in to the economy through civil works and services? You know, distribute the money a bit further than alcohol distributors who are quite well off enough as is?

Eh, it's just a knee-jerk reaction to seeing some over-paid dick spending more money than I'll likely ever see in my bank account on a party. I'm sure he deserves all that money and shit for running and throwing things so well, important stuff, world would be worse off if there weren't overpaid sports types around to guzzle all the beer etc etc.

 

[antidonkey]

Damn......$48 bucks for a 6 pack of red bull? I know bars have a markup beyond retail but holy shit. Even if I had his kind of cash I would pay those prices.

 

[Dragonclaw]

I'd like my new career to be selling this guy his booze "Hey LeBron, $108 for a 12 pack of Bud Light? I'll get you TWO 12 packs for that"