Tech Separation

In 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos split from his wife MacKenzie  after 25 years of marriage. I'm not sure there will be a trend for this, but it could grow. That is coming on the heels of recent news regarding Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.  A couple with three kids and 27 year marriage and having known each other for well over 30 years. Philanthropists who try to make the world better in places that don't have luxuries of even things like drinking water. Very surprising of ending it.

I think high profile marriages always come back to bite the couple that are hitched together. You see it more with people a lot younger than the Gates family. Especially with Hollywood, nothing is ever sacred. It's not all complete doom and gloom. With the tweet they put out, Bill and Melinda plan to still work together on trying to do better things for the world. But they couldn't find anything else to continue growing their marriage.

There was a headline on Fox and Daily News about Bill being with an ex and having getaways. That stuff happened with Bezos with stories being propped up about being with a news anchor who had just divorced at the same time. With Bezos, that is true, but from places like National Enquirer, it's hard to believe if these are true or not. In the case of Bill, maybe it is true or it is false. I wonder if COVID played a factor along with the efforts to do better things. Maybe some stock that they have that was a bad investment. Maybe seeing what happened with the Bezos'. Your guess is as good as mine.

What do you think? Does this get ugly or will it be some mutual end where there isn't any animosity between the two? 

Taxing Wealthy: Poking the Bear

I try not to make political blogs, but there's times where I feel necessary to discuss certain things. Now, I don't really care much for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I think she's a loudmouth bimbo who thinks she can do whatever she wants. One thing she wants to do is tax the wealthy and have a 70 percent tax rate on them. This is something that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is not exactly fond of. Surely, he thinks there should be some taxes, but should be handled in a different compared to what she and others like Bernie Sanders have in mind.

Personally, I do think a number of people should get taxed with a high rate. I would apply it to all those Hollywood stars who get 10 to 20 million pay checks for a movie they do. Hell, I'd do it to the cast of The Simpsons since they make 10 million or more a season.  Baseball players I think are grossly overpaid. No reason to have 30 million a year to play a season of baseball. Same with basketball and football. I would do it to some of the politicians. I kind of get what Cortez is doing.

However, to want that high of a tax rate is ridiculous. Gates is worth 100 billion. He would be left with 30 billion following a 70 percent rate. But the thing is he does stuff with his money compared to most other billionaires. Both him and his, Melinda, are trying to make a difference in today's world. And it's not like that couple and many others are just sitting on piles of cash. To me, I have no idea how things work with hedge funds and all that. I think 70 percent is way too high despite what I said about the above examples. I think there has to be a healthy medium. For Cortez to go right for the throat that early into her run as a representative of New York is not smart.

Honestly, she would need to convince a lot of people to go with this idea, but I also believe this is a double edged sword. While Cortez is trying to be one for the people and try to make the government and the United States different, this could bite her in 10 to 20 years from those same people if they became millionaires or billionaires. I don't see her lasting that long in Congress. She has no idea what she is doing and I don't see many agreeing with her ideals. Cortez will experience a lot of hell from other senators and representatives all over the country.