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RocketRod [TotalFark]
2011-11-11 03:57:27 PM
99% and a pitch ain't one.
 
MrEricSir
2011-11-11 04:17:21 PM
What a douchebag.
 
AeAe
2011-11-11 04:17:46 PM
Opportunist.
 
the_vegetarian_cannibal
2011-11-11 04:20:37 PM
He's not a businessman. He's a business, man.
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 04:23:02 PM
That's so awesome. It takes American can-do spirit to take something like OWS and turn a profit off it.
 
tricycleracer
2011-11-11 04:23:33 PM
Jay Z To Sell "Occupy All Street" T-Shirts, But Will Not Give Proceeds To Occupiers

Then fark right off, Shawn.
 
IrateShadow
2011-11-11 04:26:59 PM
The sad part is that he'll still make a ton of money off them.
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 04:30:15 PM
I think I'll market T-shirts screened with images of the various finger waving and hand motions used to communicate during Occupy meetings.

/of course I'm keeping the profits
 
EyeballKid
2011-11-11 04:33:09 PM
Congrats, Jay. You've made selling crack look slightly less despicable.
 
groppet
2011-11-11 04:34:49 PM
Flip his benz and set it on fire?
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 04:35:13 PM
EyeballKid: Congrats, Jay. You've made selling crack look slightly less despicable.

How does turning an honest buck even compare with drug-dealing? Hyperbole much?
 
Gunny Highway
2011-11-11 04:36:44 PM
fark Jay-Z
 
JJRRutgers
2011-11-11 04:38:07 PM
Street vendors have been hawking OWS T-shirts at OWS since day 1. The same ones that sold 9-11 merch the day after 9-11.
 
cgraves67
2011-11-11 04:39:27 PM
And the people camping on the streets will think he's one of them and buy his t-shirts at $30/ea. Then he'll go down to his mansion and sleep with Beyonce.
 
tricycleracer
2011-11-11 04:40:37 PM
BroVinny: EyeballKid: Congrats, Jay. You've made selling crack look slightly less despicable.

How does turning an honest buck even compare with drug-dealing? Hyperbole much?

When I got to "an honest buck" I was pretty sure you were talking about drug dealing. Then I read the rest and was disappoint.
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 04:41:54 PM
cgraves67: And the people camping on the streets will think he's one of them and buy his t-shirts at $30/ea. Then he'll go down to his mansion and sleep with Beyonce.

Only 1/7,000,000,000th of the population gets to fark Beyonce. Protest!

/#OccupyBeyonce
/now that movement I can get behind
 
H31N0US
2011-11-11 04:45:45 PM
What the 1% may look like:

visionaryartistrymag.com
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 04:46:46 PM
H31N0US: What the 1% may look like:

[visionaryartistrymag.com image 479x600]

Rick Rubin is teh awesome.
 
tricycleracer
2011-11-11 04:53:05 PM
H31N0US: What the 1% may look like:

[visionaryartistrymag.com image 479x600]

Hey, at least they made it selling products that people want and not by inventing new ways to cause economic bedlam for personal gain.
 
cheap_thoughts [TotalFark]
2011-11-11 04:57:11 PM
H31N0US: What the 1% may look like:

Oh I thought that was the lead singer from Texas Hippie Coalition.

www.away-team.com
 
Standard Deviant
2011-11-11 05:00:11 PM
This makes me so happy. I may do the same thing in my city.
 
EnochEmery
2011-11-11 05:00:23 PM
You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.
 
FTGodWin
2011-11-11 05:06:30 PM
EnochEmery: You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.

Yes, because stealing from others is so much better than earning money yourself?

Don't you realize that this is what Wall St. does?

/head asplodes
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2011-11-11 05:10:58 PM
Standard Deviant: This makes me so happy. I may do the same thing in my city.

This
 
craigzy
2011-11-11 05:12:01 PM
Ha!

files.diagonalfish.net
 
poot_rootbeer
2011-11-11 05:17:39 PM
"He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010." -first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for Jay-Z

But I'm sure he's keeping true to his 99-percenter roots. Probably still lives in the Marcy Projects.
 
buntz
2011-11-11 05:18:52 PM
Why don't all the "protestors" just NOT buy anything?
 
EnochEmery
2011-11-11 05:30:00 PM
FTGodWin: EnochEmery: You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.

Yes, because stealing from others is so much better than earning money yourself?
Don't you realize that this is what Wall St. does?
/head asplodes

My understanding was that the OWS was against the disparity of income between the 1% and the 99%.
If it's OK for a 1%er like Jay-Z to keep the gains of these t-shirts, why is there outrage?
 
NateAsbestos
2011-11-11 05:57:42 PM
EnochEmery: FTGodWin: EnochEmery: You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.

Yes, because stealing from others is so much better than earning money yourself?
Don't you realize that this is what Wall St. does?
/head asplodes

My understanding was that the OWS was against the disparity of income between the 1% and the 99%.
If it's OK for a 1%er like Jay-Z to keep the gains of these t-shirts, why is there outrage?

Because "offering a product/service that people want to buy and keeping the money you make off of it, minus a fair tax to fund the system that let this kind of market come about" is not a problem. I'd venture to guess that the vast majority of the OWS protestors agree with that.

/Probably something like 99% of them
 
ToxicAvenger
2011-11-11 06:30:37 PM
Check out Occupy Tees (new window) ... it's run by David Krikorian (new window), a frequent congressional candidate who runs on a platform of "ethics".
 
EnochEmery
2011-11-11 06:52:24 PM
NateAsbestos: EnochEmery: FTGodWin: EnochEmery: You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.

Yes, because stealing from others is so much better than earning money yourself?
Don't you realize that this is what Wall St. does?
/head asplodes

My understanding was that the OWS was against the disparity of income between the 1% and the 99%.
If it's OK for a 1%er like Jay-Z to keep the gains of these t-shirts, why is there outrage?

Because "offering a product/service that people want to buy and keeping the money you make off of it, minus a fair tax to fund the system that let this kind of market come about" is not a problem. I'd venture to guess that the vast majority of the OWS protestors agree with that.

/Probably something like 99% of them

So Jay-Z is violating this because he isn't taxed enough on the t-shirts he sells?
Or is it because the t-shirts are a product that people don't want to buy but are being forced to buy, like bank bailouts?
 
BroVinny
2011-11-11 06:58:07 PM
ToxicAvenger: Check out Occupy Tees (new window) ... it's run by David Krikorian (new window), a frequent congressional candidate who runs on a platform of "ethics".

Any word if he's sharing his profits?
 
dougermouse
2011-11-11 06:59:47 PM
From my favorite webcomic (shameless hot linked BTW)www.sinfest.net Coincidence? Here it is (new window):
 
ToxicAvenger
2011-11-11 07:35:24 PM
BroVinny: ToxicAvenger: Check out Occupy Tees (new window) ... it's run by David Krikorian (new window), a frequent congressional candidate who runs on a platform of "ethics".

Any word if he's sharing his profits?

One of his campaign staff said they are using some of the cash to fund his 2012 campaign and that they were "waiting for something more solid than a donation box to pop up".
 
Dialectic
2011-11-11 07:51:27 PM
But the genius behind "99 Problems" isn't sharing the profits with the 99 percent.

You know how we do, Roc-a-Fella... forever... You can catch me
skatin through your town puttin it down y'all relatin. Even though, I be ghetto, I be the 1% hatin' on the 99%. "I'm out for presidents to represent me" "Get money!". "I'm out for presidents to represent me" "Get money!". Peace, suckas!
 
Gonad the Ballbarian
2011-11-11 09:26:45 PM
This country deserves to die...
 
What_Would_Jimi_Do
2011-11-11 09:33:44 PM
poot_rootbeer: Marcy Projects

t0.gstatic.com

Marcy son, what
 
Barakku
2011-11-11 10:29:29 PM
IrateShadow: The sad part is that he'll still make a ton of money off them.

And the hilarious thing is they're the ones giving him money.
 
Barakku
2011-11-11 10:30:40 PM
dougermouse: From my favorite webcomic (shameless hot linked BTW)[www.sinfest.net image 640x216] Coincidence? Here it is (new window):

I love sinfest!
 
badhatharry [TotalFark]
2011-11-11 11:54:04 PM
Jay Z doesn't owe anyone his pofits. If you don't like what he is selling, don't buy it. You should have copyrighted your name. Bunch of idiots.
 
89 Stick-Up Kid
2011-11-12 12:13:15 AM
Hawaiian Sophie
 
Forbidden Doughnut
2011-11-12 11:10:52 AM
AeAe: Opportunist.

He's the African-American version of Gene Simmons, I think.

/ I'm OK with this.jpeg
// haters gonna hate...
 
Cargo
2011-11-12 11:51:05 AM
Jay-Z is a douchebag.

And got-damb, is he one ugly mother farker.
 
Braindeath
2011-11-12 09:45:03 PM
BroVinny: cgraves67: And the people camping on the streets will think he's one of them and buy his t-shirts at $30/ea. Then he'll go down to his mansion and sleep with Beyonce.

Only 1/7,000,000,000th of the population gets to fark Beyonce. Protest!

/#OccupyBeyonce
/now that movement I can get behind

I want to join this protest.
 
NateAsbestos
2011-11-13 09:14:38 PM
EnochEmery: NateAsbestos: EnochEmery: FTGodWin: EnochEmery: You'd think he'd know by now the one message the OWS has been clear about.
Profits are to be shared with everyone; not kept for personal gain.
But, once a 1%er, always, I suppose.

Yes, because stealing from others is so much better than earning money yourself?
Don't you realize that this is what Wall St. does?
/head asplodes

My understanding was that the OWS was against the disparity of income between the 1% and the 99%.
If it's OK for a 1%er like Jay-Z to keep the gains of these t-shirts, why is there outrage?

Because "offering a product/service that people want to buy and keeping the money you make off of it, minus a fair tax to fund the system that let this kind of market come about" is not a problem. I'd venture to guess that the vast majority of the OWS protestors agree with that.

/Probably something like 99% of them

So Jay-Z is violating this because he isn't taxed enough on the t-shirts he sells?
Or is it because the t-shirts are a product that people don't want to buy but are being forced to buy, like bank bailouts?

Um, no? I was defending Jay-Z
 
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