Thread 106284492

>Steve Ballmer Makes $1 Billion a Year in Microsoft Dividends

/g/'s thoughts?

>>106284492 (OP)
he should spend some of it on deodorant

>>106284497
someone sounds jealous

>>106284492 (OP)
Azure and Microsoft's focus on cloud services started under Ballmer so he's as entitled to that dough as anyone else at his level.

DIVIDENDS!
DIVIDENDS!
DIVIDENDS!

>>106284513
money cant buy class

>>106284536
the cloud is all one big seo scam like ai. its going to pop soon.

Does this look like something degenerate is about to happen?

>>106284571
they fucked and Windows Vista was born

>>106284492 (OP)
>>106284513
ZAAAMN!!!

>>106284492 (OP)
What does he do with it? Genuine question.

Time to go spelunking!

>>106284600
it's not like he needs it, or anything.
he bought a basketball team, fuck knows what else he does with it.

>>106284600
He overpaid for an NBA team but didn't care because he has so much wealth. By most accounts, he has a very stable family life and raised normal children to be well adjusted adults.
His other moves with money, beyond buying multiple houses, are mostly unknown but probably are standard conservative wealth management. He did get involved in the "fighting misinformation" fad for a while. USAFacts.org is owned by him and was highly visible during the pandemic until the data started showing things they didn't want it to show, at which time it mysteriously stopped being updated.

>>106284635
>beyond buying multiple houses

Anything interesting or standard US mansion / French Riviera 18th century villa / Bahamas island type of shit?

>was highly visible during the pandemic until the data started showing things they didn't want it to show, at which time it mysteriously stopped being updated.

kek I believe this

>>106284635
>By most accounts, he has a very stable family life and raised normal children to be well adjusted adults.

I'm massively surprised by this. Would have expected half of them to be troons and shit.

>>106284666
Why? He obviously used windows, not linux.

>>106284683
HAHAHAHAHA you are a good man anon

test

>>106284731
still banned dude

>>106284564
It seems to be holding up surprisingly well thus far.

>>106284666
He was always the business chad of the group while Bill and Paul were ubernerds of the type that easily fall into virtue signaling due to their need for external approval.

>Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company. Ballmer's mother is Jewish. Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian Gilda Radner. Ballmer grew up in the community of Farmington Hills, Michigan.
>In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University. He graduated as valedictorian from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, with a score of 790 on the mathematical section of the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar.
>Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college, attended Harvard University, where he was a manager for the Harvard Crimson football team and a member of the Fox Club, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He scored highly in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, an exam sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, scoring higher than Bill Gates. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics in 1977.
The NBA team and being Jewish explains why he started hanging out with Mark Cuban so much.

>>106284492 (OP)
>/g/'s thoughts?
Go ahead and buy Win11.

>>106284492 (OP)
I wish i could get $100k/yr. that would be enough for me to live a quiet life.

>>106284492 (OP)
>>106284538
How can this man still be alive in 2025? 23 years ago he looked about to have a heart attack any moment.
My theory is that he is indeed dead for many years but his widow didn't tell anyone and buried him in the cellar so she could go on collecting the money.

have you considered the possibility that steve ballmer works 1000000000x harder than you

>>106284891
OF COURSE HE IS A FUCKING JEW GODDAMN IT

>In 2021, ProPublica documented how Ballmer is using his ownership of various sports teams as a means to lower his federal income tax to as low as 12%, compared to around 35% for the athletes playing in the team. The report exposes how the Clippers were profitable before their acquisition by Ballmer, but then reported $700 million in losses for tax purposes in following years.
>In 2023, ProPublica did another report, about Ballmer's usage of wash sales helped by Goldman Sachs, under the label "Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting", resulting in tax savings of more than half a billion dollars over 5 years.
>Ballmer is on the World Chairman's Council of the Jewish National Fund, which means he has donated US$1 million or more to the JNF.
>>106284911
Blood harvesting.

>>106284911
why bother? she would inherit it anyway.

>>106284924
actually no

>>106284891
>Ballmer's mother is Jewish
It's all so tiresome

>OMG overhyped salesman is jewish!!1!
why is /g/ so fucking stupid?

>>106284961
>In 2023, ProPublica did another report, about Ballmer's usage of wash sales helped by Goldman Sachs, under the label "Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting", resulting in tax savings of more than half a billion dollars over 5 years.

That's based af

>>106284911
>How can this man still be alive in 2025? 23 years ago he looked about to have a heart attack any moment.
That's just how he looks outside publicity shots. Sweaty, wild-eyed, balancing on the razor's edge at the precipice of insanity. "Coked up" is a shorter way to describe it.
>>106284961
Anyone can use tax loss harvesting. It's not some secret scheme by the ultra-wealthy to cheat on their taxes.

>>106285017
His father says he's not Jewish but was an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials and at the war criminal trials in Dachau. Just a weird coincidence.

Shit Team u bought there, Steve

>>106284492 (OP)
>In 2018, Steve Ballmer reported $656 million in income and paid $78 million in federal taxes, resulting in a federal income tax rate of 12%. This low rate was achieved through the use of tax provisions allowing him to deduct the purchase price of the Los Angeles Clippers, which he bought for $2 billion, against his income over time. This deduction, based on the amortization of the team's assets, allowed him to report significant tax losses despite the team's profitability, enabling him to offset other income and drastically reduce his tax liability. The practice, while legal, has drawn public scrutiny as it results in a much lower effective tax rate compared to high-earning athletes like LeBron James, who paid a 35.9% rate on $124 million in income that same year.

>>106285075
he bought them for the tax writeoffs
>In 2018, Steve Ballmer reported $656 million in income and paid $78 million in federal taxes, resulting in a federal income tax rate of 12%. This low rate was achieved through the use of tax provisions allowing him to deduct the purchase price of the Los Angeles Clippers, which he bought for $2 billion, against his income over time. This deduction, based on the amortization of the team's assets, allowed him to report significant tax losses despite the team's profitability, enabling him to offset other income and drastically reduce his tax liability. The practice, while legal, has drawn public scrutiny as it results in a much lower effective tax rate compared to high-earning athletes like LeBron James, who paid a 35.9% rate on $124 million in income that same year.

>>106285083
No, but he does seem to be reasonably attached to them, built them a new stadium n sheeit. Helps that they are now worth $5B+, I guess. Retarded fucking 'sport'.

>>106285038
>Anyone can use tax loss harvesting. It's not some secret scheme by the ultra-wealthy to cheat on their taxes.
How many people with incomes at or below the median use it? No one said it was secret, that's something you added as a strawman. But it is something that exists to advantage the wealthy. Now your predictable reply will be to claim it's not just wealthy people using it and come up with some outlier anecdote that ignores that it's not something that benefits those at or below the median income.
Post the size of your hat.

>>106285076
sounds based af desu. why not fuck the system if it's legal?

>>106284564
>its going to pop soon.
Did it not already pop? It's just it was a micro-bubble, overhyped but not over-invested so when it went nobody really noticed. You want to start a new "cloud services" company, you'll have a hard time getting investors to care.
AI though is a scary bubble. Massively over invested and still not found its niche. Coomer images and unlicensed therapy isn't going to do squat for the billions it's taken to get this far. Nor is all the companies buying thousands of dollars worth of openai credits even so much as offsetting the bills. If nobody comes up with a killer app soon, pop, pop, pop. But if they do... kaching!

>>106284891
Are all americans jewish? I don't know a single jew, but I live in Finland so it's normal to not know any fucking kikes around here.

>>106285076
And if LeBron James had used his money to buy a productive asset he too could have offset the purchase price against his taxes.
Tax incentives are there to INCENTIVISE rich cunts to invest. They do this by making that money go further in purchasing power rather than just taxing the fuck out of it no matter what you do, incentivising you to just leave it in their account, benefiting no one.
The US tax system prefers to gamble on larger taxation from future profits instead of penny pinching the smaller amounts.

>>106285187
Not all Burgers are Jews
Just the rich and influential ones.

>>106285112
>that's something you added as a strawman
You're obliquely naming the tribe in your criticism and then calling people out for "strawmanning?"
I don't wear hats, anon. I just miss Steve Ballmer. One of the only times I'll look back and say we didn't know how good we had it. Regardless of how much I hated him at the time.

>>106285070
What is the coincidence ?

>>106284589
>>106284571
why bill looked so youthful, but others looked like ugly bastards

>>106285192
>larger taxation from future profits
lol
It just gets trust funded at that point. Like the previous Clippers owner paid $12m for them, his wife then had him declared batshit and sold them to Ballmer after he started spouting raycisms. And he was a fucking Jew lawyer. But anyway, I digress - the cash went to Sterling Family Trust, aka her, and I doubt the Govt ever saw jackshit of that $12m to $2B profit differential. And the same will happen with Ballmer, currently $2B to $5B+. The game was rigged from the start.

>>106285222
Bill was a doood.

god I wish I got that fucking YEARLY. all the crazy shit he can get to and yet he does nothing. why not invest in some anti-gravity or immortality tech?

fox grapes etc.

baste

>>106285338
why chase impossible stuff when you snort coke out of a whore's anus?

>>106284557
But money defines your class

>>106284492 (OP)
>Ballmer is the sixth richest person in the world
Not even top 10, same with Musk...

>>106284635
Probably the type to have wanted to build a city of tomorrow tm but then found no land available without having to kill 100 farmers so just sits around jerking off all day.

>>106288612
>rich lists
Are mostly fucking stupid anyway unless your ordering them by how liquid they are. This fact fuck gets a billion in cash every year. He's very liquid.

>>106284564

no, that's ai. the cloud is only going to get bigger as tech becomes more complex and companies and people outsource and automate more.

>>106288618
>just sits around jerking off all day.

Why not have several 10/10s jerking you off instead? He cam afford a cpiple different whores every single day, yearly.

>>106284492 (OP)
I would have expected more, maybe around 10 billion annually

>>106284492 (OP)
Must feel real nice when you don't have to work a single day for the rest of your life

>>106289054
word

>>106289054
Some people NEED to sweat tho.

My opinion is that Microsoft is extremely overvalued.
There is no way that Microsoft is worth so much money. Their biggest product is an OS so bad that entire generations prefer to use a touchscreen device with Android (Linux) rather than learn Windows.
They failed really hard at their attempt to compete with AWS (yeah, sure, they have a lot of gov customers that keep Azure afloat, but this is just money wash).
All their attempts to copy Apple's success failed miserably, and those examples are nowadays used in business schools all over the world to define failure.
And they pretty much bet everything on AI but so far have not found a single way to pay for itself.
ChatGPT is so cost prohibitive that even if everyone paid for it, it would still not turn a profit.

>>106290178
>Android (Linux)

kek linuxtroons desperate to believe this cope

>>106284492 (OP)
4 WORDS
I
LOVE
THIS
COMPANY

>>106285076
Oh no he only only paid 78 million in taxes what an asshole

>>106284492 (OP)
meanwhile, wozniak "gave all [his] Apple wealth away":
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466

>>106285038
But not everyone does, dumbass. Most people don't make the sort of money where they need to start using tax loopholes, and since those loopholes and the intricacies of the tax system are not widely-held areas of knowledge, you also need to be able to pay an accountant's fees. Which aren't cheap.

>>106291113
He's like a corporate Hannibal Lecter

>>106291131
leftists are mentally ill what did you expect

>>106291131
>>106295295
He 'earns' $1B a year, SOLELY from MS dividends. He has another $150B under the bedsheet - if he's earning even 3% on that, which is US Government Bond levels of safe return, thats another $3B, right fucking there. So this fat bastard is coining MINIMUM $4B in safe passive returns, year for fucking year. And you pair think it's impressive, he paid $78m Tax? He probably finds $78m down the back of the sun lounger.

>>106295533
stupid commie shitter

>>106288587
Old blood is class. You have to be invited to the old blood club to be in the class. Otherwise, money just makes you a target for those old blood

>>106284911
It's crazy what boatloads of money a year can do to your medical outlook. Just ask Magic Johnson.

>>106295855
Tax him just 10% a year, solely on his MS dividend. That's $100m, or 25% more than he actually paid. He gets to keep $900m, every year. What's fucking unfair about that? Do you pay fucking 7% tax?

>>106285187
>Are all americans jewish?
No, but the ones that run this country are.

>>106290178
All big companies are overvalued. They get free money and unlimited loans from the government.