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Billionaires get a lot of hate. But the average billionaire is someone who created a lot of wealth by making things people want. Join us in celebrating billionaires' contributions, Feb 7 in San Francisco. marchforbillionaires.org

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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 18/02/2026
We’re not sure why our benighted opponents chanted both “fuck the poor” and “eat the rich”. Perhaps they hate everyone regardless of income? That would explain their support of this wealth tax, which would harm rich and poor Californians alike.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 08/02/2026
How to spend a quiet afternoon in San Francisco: organize a pro-billionaires march.
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One Man’s Lonely Quest to Rally Support for Billionaires in San Francisco
Derik Kauffman wanted to change the discourse on America’s richest people. Would anyone show up to his march?
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Laura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I went to the pro-billionaire march in San Francisco yesterday and wrote about it: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/bi...
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 10/02/2026
Our response to @sanders.senate.gov’s remarks
Senator Sanders,

We encourage you to look beyond the headlines here. We did not march so that Bezos could buy another mansion or Zuckerberg another yacht, but because we believe that those billionaires and many others have made life better for everyday Americans.

Yes, the tech founders you named are fabulously wealthy. But they did not steal that money from anyone. Just like you made your millions selling books people wanted to read, most billionaires are rich because they made things people want. We’re all better off for Amazon’s extensive catalog with two-day delivery or Starlink’s rural internet access. The engine of capitalism brought us these and so many more innovations that make us the wealthiest country in the world.

You’ve named Sweden as a model for the US to follow. Well, Sweden had a wealth tax once, but it led to capital flight like we’re already seeing in California. Twenty years ago they rolled it back, and now they have both a generous welfare system and more billionaires per capita than the US. Let’s learn from their experience.

Like you, we want every American to have a fair chance to succeed, and that means closing tax loopholes and funding basic social services. But blaming the rich for everything wrong with the country doesn’t solve anything.
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Paid for by Derik Kauffman (not the billionaires)
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
amazing things are happening in SF
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
About two dozen people joined the march. Plus some obvious trolls with colored signs who counterprotested.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
Those were counterprotestors, to be clear
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
A counterprotestor, to be clear
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
Thank you to everyone who marched with us today! Remember, Billionaires Build Prosperity—let's keep them in California!
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
A conversation with Annie helped inspire the march, but she was not involved in organizing. We do not endorse all of her views.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
It was great, thanks for asking! Photos soon
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 08/02/2026
The person you're referring to was an attendee, not an organizer
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 06/02/2026
Very different case. After the Massachusetts millionaires tax, its top tax bracket is still a third lower than California's. The proposed wealth tax in CA is fatally flawed.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 06/02/2026
That's 1% of their total workforce.
Google AI summary: As of early 2026, Amazon's total worldwide workforce stands at approximately 1.57 million to 1.6 million people. This total includes full- and part-time employees working across corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and physical retail stores. The company remains the second-largest private employer in the U.S..
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 05/02/2026
There are now many tech startups that raise at valuations of billions or tens of billions of dollars before IPO.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 05/02/2026
People use Google search because they feel it's the best option or because they never changed the default. What market power does Google have there? Switching costs are zero.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 05/02/2026
You voluntarily choose to use Google knowing it has ads, meaning it has positive value to you. There's no externality imposed on non-Google users.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 05/02/2026
Several reasons: - complexity of valuing illiquid assets - forcing payers to take liquidity on potentially bad terms - laying the groundwork for wider asset seizure - retroactivity to the start of this year - taxing voting power instead of economic ownership
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 02/02/2026
Happy Black History Month! Did you know that there are 25 black billionaires? The richest African American is David Steward, who founded IT systems integrator World Wide Technology.
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Black billionaires - Wikipedia
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 02/02/2026
It’s real, folks!
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 02/02/2026
Bad institutions and governance, mainly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nat... The richest countries are all capitalist liberal democracies with strong property rights (or petrostates). If your argument is that immigration lifts people out of poverty, I agree with it.
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Why Nations Fail - Wikipedia
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Hi Katie! We sincerely believe what we're saying. We think most billionaires have had greatly positive societal impacts, directly and indirectly. We support wealth creation and oppose rent-seeking/extraction, anticompetitive practices, and regulatory capture.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
What do we like about billionaires? "One of the main ways to become a billionaire is by offering products and services to the public at an appealing price." —@mattyglesias.bsky.social If you tried to live without products from large corporations you'd quickly see how much they add to our lives.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
From our website. We don't necessarily endorse everything these people have done, but we think their contributions to society have been clearly net positive.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Hi Dustin, We've removed your name from our site to focus on billionaires whose positive impact came mainly through what they built as opposed to philanthropy. We too worry about regulatory capture, money in politics, and corruption. We see them as abuses of economic power, not an indictment of it.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It's time to take a bold stand in defense of America's oft-maligned billionaire class. www.slowboring.com/p/lets-all-p...
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Let’s all practice billionaire positivity
It’s not a zero-sum world.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
to add to this: poverty in DRC is due to weak institutions, disease, wars, corruption, and colonial rule. Some billionaires like Dan Gertler have exploited this for personal gain, which we condemn. We support the Norwegian model of taxes on resource extraction to benefit the people.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
We're serious. No one is paying us for this. We know that our views are unpopular here, but we believe in engaging in good-faith discourse with those of differing opinions.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
True, Weissman and Karikó made key discoveries, but so did BioNTech founders and billionaires Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Reasonable people can disagree on tax policy. We think that the proposed tax in CA is poorly designed, and makes our state unattractive to founders that power our economy. There are other options we support that would raise revenue by closing tax loopholes without risking killing the golden goose.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Paul Graham put it nicely: "Let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process. That's much more likely to work than attacking wealth in the hope that you will thereby fix poverty."
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Economic Inequality
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
There isn't some fixed pie of wealth that billionaires are monopolizing. People who found companies create new wealth, and capture only a slice of that. Imagine how much poorer we would be if iPhones, Google, Uber, Spotify, or mRNA vaccines did not exist. Even Bluesky was created by a billionaire!
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Poverty is a serious issue that we care deeply about. But billionaires aren't responsible for it. The DRC has no billionaires, yet 75% of its population lives in extreme poverty. We applaud billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who have saved millions of lives with their charity.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
We freely acknowledge that not all billionaires are good people. We strongly oppose Trump, and while we appreciate Musk's contributions to EVs, space exploration, and rural internet access, we're disappointed with the right-wing turn he's taken. Child abusers deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
We've received a lot of comments from the Bluesky community tonight, so we want to take the time to clarify our positions.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
There isn't some fixed pie of wealth that has to be divided between rich and poor. Billionaires mostly created new wealth—for instance, Taylor Swift made songs that many people were willing to pay for, and we're all better off for Brin and Page's Google. They didn't steal from you.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
We're doing this for free. Meanwhile the people canvassing for the tax are getting paid $5 per signature.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Au contraire! Most billionaires got rich from creating new things. Google Search is a great example—a valuable service that makes our lives much better. The pot of wealth is not fixed, but grows with every entrepreneur. Contrast this with landowners, who do not build wealth but merely capture it.
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Economic Inequality
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 01/02/2026
Great to hear that Ro Khanna recognizes the flaws of the ballot question as-is and is trying to work out a compromise that won't hurt the startup economy.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 31/01/2026
Wealth-creating billionaires aren't the problem. Rent-seekers of all stripes are.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 30/01/2026
Billionaires get a bad rap. But most of them make our lives much better. The proposed CA Billionaire Tax Act is a tax on unrealized gains and is already driving founders out of the state. Join us Feb 7 and #MarchForBillionaires! marchforbillionaires.org
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 30/01/2026
We're not categorically against taxing billionaires more. The "buy, borrow, die" loophole is real, and fixable by treating equity-backed loans as realized gains. But a tax on all assets and equity isn't the way forward.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 30/01/2026
She makes music that so many people love! And by all accounts she takes care of her staff, too. We're thankful for Taylor.
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March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 30/01/2026
The top 0.1% of California residents pay more than one-sixth of income taxes, and the top 1% pays 40%. California already has the highest income tax brackets in the country—it's simply not true that the rich don't pay taxes.
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