# Fuck Jerry Seinfeld **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260 "2021-01-23T04:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/121 "2021-01-31T21:27:25Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yes, but you could also look at it from another angle: If a TV show (or a bestselling novel, or a hit record, or a sporting event, or…) makes a certain large amount of money, who deserves that money? What percentage of the profits should go to said popular entertainer, as opposed to going to someone else who may deserve it less, or more? This is what I was getting at. The money is there, it’s merely a question of how it’s distributed. The impression I get from many of the people who argue that athletes, musicians, actors, etc. are overpaid is that they believe the money should instead go to the owner of the team, the record company, or the movie studio. So yes, a multimillionaire entertainer should be in a higher tax bracket than a doctor, and a doctor should be in a higher tax bracket than a housekeeper. That doesn’t mean that a highly paid athlete like Lebron James should be taxed higher than the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, or that he should take a lower salary so that the team owner can keep more of the money made by the team. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/122 "2021-01-31T21:31:54Z")
…but then if Seinfeld was a Laker… ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/123 "2021-02-01T12:47:10Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Do you really believe a sitcom is worth almost a billion dollars? Do you believe it’s not? If so, that would imply that you believe somebody made a mistake in paying Seinfeld so much money. Who made the mistake? Who got screwed over? ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/124 "2021-02-17T11:30:54Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Finally, and just out of my idle curiosity, how much of your money, OP, have you donated to charities? If you’re not living in the cheapest place possible, eating the cheapest food available, and donating every red cent beyond what you need for a bare minimum to sustain life, then you’re not only an idiot, you’re a hypocrite. [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/330/819/e47.png) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/330/819/e47.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/125 "2021-02-17T12:52:45Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > …but then if Seinfeld was a Laker… … he’d say he was ‘Superior’ and I’d say he’s just ‘Erie’ (and smells like lake water). > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > I wanted to see if anyone could see the results of “tax the rich”. > Seems simple minded to think the rich will just go “Ok, take my money “. That’s why we give Treasury Agents guns. 😉 “Now, about these deductions…” > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > 12,000 millionaires left France last year because people thought they could just tax the rich. They have the money to live in any one of a thousand nations, but the point is that unless they pick one, they are ‘homeless’. There many reasons to be a citizen of an actual nation and not to set up a fiefdom on some unaffiliated coral atoll, pretending that you can protect your fortune from pirates. > [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > 389 billionaires in China. [![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/McsJRO31S6ZuHOxMqZ/giphy.gif) ](https://media4.giphy.com/media/McsJRO31S6ZuHOxMqZ/giphy.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260/126 "2021-02-17T13:14:18Z")
Seinfeld in addition to being a great comedian, is a major player in the classic car world, which, as far as I’m concerned, is a form of art preservation, so he’s one of the good guys IMO and using his money for benevolent purposes. I shot this picture of a Lamborghini Miura that he drove on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”, at a car show a few years ago. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/1PDn1RWq/img071.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/1PDn1RWq/img071.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-jerry-seinfeld/931260.md?page=6)