{"id":1553044,"date":"2022-07-13T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553044"},"modified":"2022-07-13T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:34:35","slug":"eat-the-rich-new-york-hipsters-buying-10-popsicles-shaped-like-elon-musk-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eat-the-rich-new-york-hipsters-buying-10-popsicles-shaped-like-elon-musk-jeff-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eat The Rich\u2019: New York Hipsters Buying $10 Popsicles Shaped Like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feat-the-rich-new-york-hipsters-buying-10-popsicles-shaped-like-elon-musk-jeff-bezos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\">New Yorkers<\/a> are taking a bite out of tech billionaires by purchasing $10 <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ice-cream\">popsicles<\/a> shaped like the wealthiest men in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Art collective MSCHF \u2014 the same group that faced backlash last year for making \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-sell-out-in-seconds\">Satan Shoes<\/a>\u201d with rapper Lil Nas X \u2014 began selling popsicles bearing names like \u201cbite Bezos\u201d for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, \u201cmunch Musk\u201d for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, \u201csuck Zuck\u201d for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, \u201csnack on Jack\u201d for Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and \u201cgobble Gates\u201d for Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/2187189\/billionaire-shaped-popsicles-allow-you-to-eat-the-rich\/\">Quartz<\/a>. MSCHF is also offering its products across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Despite promoting slogans like \u201cEat the Rich,\u201d MSCHF appears to be making bank. The popsicles are twice as expensive as normal ice pops, according to Quartz.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Yorkers can take a bite out of capitalism by munching on popsicles shaped like the heads of billionaires Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg near McCarren Park in Brooklyn <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oD8JEZhkeW\">pic.twitter.com\/oD8JEZhkeW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1547206711286665220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the anti-capitalist frozen confection enthusiasts seemed to enjoy getting a bite of the action. \u201cThey\u2019re not great people,\u201d a customer told Quartz, \u201cbut for me it\u2019s an experience. I love this type of thing. I think this is really cute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could really take a bite out of all of them easily,\u201d another customer remarked. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody in the whole world should be a billionaire,\u201d she continued, saying that Bezos is \u201ctaking over all business, and small businesses can\u2019t survive anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire business magnates are often the subject of progressive ire. As the United States became awash with social justice activism during the summer of 2020, activists set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/activists-set-up-guillotine-in-front-of-jeff-bezoss-d-c-home-call-for-amazon-to-be-abolished\">guillotine<\/a> in front of Jeff Bezos\u2019 home in Washington, DC. One of the demonstrators said on a bullhorn that \u201cit is still exploitation and when they become threatened, and we have no voice, the knives come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other protesters marched through Beverly Hills, California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/activists-set-up-guillotine-in-front-of-jeff-bezoss-d-c-home-call-for-amazon-to-be-abolished\">chanting<\/a> slogans like \u201ceat the rich\u201d and \u201cabolish capitalism now.\u201d In St. Louis, Missouri, protesters attempted to intimidate residents of a gated community, but were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-armed-st-louis-residents-stand-guard-over-property-as-demonstrators-enter-residential-neighborhood\">met<\/a> by lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey guarding their property with their firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Disdain for billionaires also exists among many Democratic lawmakers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stop-projecting-elon-musk-blasts-elizabeth-warren-for-saying-hes-freeloading-off-everyone-else\">asserted<\/a> on Twitter last year that the \u201crigged tax code\u201d ought to be changed so that Musk will \u201cstop freeloading off everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk \u2014 who has since announced that he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/take-the-red-pill-how-elon-musk-came-to-embrace-the-republican-party\">begin<\/a> voting for Republicans \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1470848958897471497\">replied<\/a> with a series of knockout blows. First, he suggested that Warren \u201cstop projecting.\u201d Then, he said Warren reminds him of \u201cwhen I was a kid and my friend\u2019s angry Mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason.\u201d And finally: \u201cPlease don\u2019t call the manager on me, Senator Karen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1472754632325795843?\">revealed<\/a> that he had shelled out over $11 billion in taxes \u2014 possibly the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/29\/investing\/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sales\/index.html#:~:text=A%20record%20tax%20bill&#038;text=But%20that%20will%20still%20increase,ever%20paid%20by%20any%20individual.\">most<\/a> any individual American has paid in a single year. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was not satisfied, however, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJayapal\/status\/1445165585969528835\">argued<\/a> that it is \u201clong overdue that the richest of the rich pay their fair share.\u201d After Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) pushed for a tax on unrealized capital gains, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1452792781726961668\">noted<\/a> that \u201ceventually, they run out of other people\u2019s money and then they come for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers are taking a bite out of tech billionaires by purchasing $10 popsicles shaped like the wealthiest men in the world. Art collective MSCHF \u2014 the same group that faced backlash last year for making \u201cSatan Shoes\u201d with rapper Lil Nas X \u2014 began selling popsicles bearing names like \u201cbite Bezos\u201d for Amazon founder &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1553187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}