United CEO Scott Kirby doubled down on his call for a national wealth tax in a Bloomberg TV interview, and now he's also pushing compulsory national service.
So Kirby's next going to run for president in 2028? Would fit with his ego.
As Bethenny Frankel once said, “go to sleep.” Focus on making United continue doing well and that’s all.
Alongside Delta’s Ed Bastian, Scott Kirby has to have one of the most unlikable personalities of any US airline CEO. What a joke
I’m sure all the losers making 60k a year are going to be triggered by this
Dear Scott,
Please donate half of your salary to your flight attendants, and see a recruiter about signing your kids up ASAP. Until then, stick to running an airline.
He has seven children?
That's responsible.
Just kidding.
Please stop writing about this guy.
Crazy how far Lucky’s nose is in Kirby’s but……I mean business. If he farts, we hear about it here.
I mean, Scott had dueling NYTimes and WSJ interviews recently, and Matthew Klint literally interviewed Mr. Kirby at the opening of the new Terminal B expansion in Houston, so... I don't think this really a Ben-issue so much as a 'Scott-is-doing-a-lot-of-PR-right-now-in-general' thing.
It'd be swell if airline CEOs could focus on running exceptional operations instead of whatever this distraction is. Like, if we're doing public policy, let's start with air passenger rights legislation, a US equivalent to EU261. (Oh, being told: 'pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!' Yeah...)
You can start a tax on fat cat frequent flyers. All miles are taxed at 50%. You don't pay with money but pay the IRS in miles for the frequent flyer tax. Every year, there's a wealth tax and 10% of your mileage balance goes to the IRS. The IRS can give those miles to Medicaid recipients.
Tax and punish the rich. Make them suffer.
Yes. He is showing himself to be pursuing the philosophers path, not corporate work.
Kirby argued that “the more fair system is, some way of taxing that wealth growth, whether it’s a wealth tax or some other way of doing it, and lower income taxes."
I mean, he's not wrong - the capital gains vs income tax structure is the ultimately regressive and heavily contributes to wealth inequality. I wonder if he saw the riots in France and had a moment of clarity in "that could be my store they'd be burning."
There's no single CG system - here in England the capital gains tax system is crazy, there's no inflation adjustment so you can easily make a substantial real-terms loss and have to pay tax on top of it. Dividends in France are taxed at ca. 30% etc.
It’s almost like capitalism selects for sociopathic tendencies…
^ THIS. This is the part people in the West need to do a better job of comprehending.
Capitalism has never been about merit. It's ultimately a race to see who can combine the highest level of deviance with the longest streak of not getting caught, all fueled by unmitigated greed.
THAT is the system that produces billionaires (and now trillionaires) while people who work a full honest day can barely afford to live.
Not "almost" ... it DOES! Logically, because capitalism is a product of the sociopaths or psychopaths in power, serving first and foremost their interests and agendas.
By FAR the most vital urgent and DEEP understanding everyone needs to gain is that a mafia network of manipulating PSYCHOPATHS (or sociopaths) is, and always has been, governing big businesses and institutions (eg official medicine, big academia, big tech, big media, big banks, big religions), governments and the world -- the evidence is, and has been, very solid in front of everyone's "awake" nose: see “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room”... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
"We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world." --- Caitlin Johnstone, Independent Journalist
And psychopaths are typically NOT how Hollywood propaganda movies (or the Wikipedia/WebMD propaganda outlets) have showcased them. And therefore one better RE-learns what a psychopath REALLY is. One'll then know why they exploit/harm everyone, why they want to control everyone and have been creating a new world order/global dictatorship, and many other formerly puzzling things will become very clear.
"If we have learned anything in the past six years, it is that vaccinologists, doctors, and the government in general do not have good intentions and never did. The clear intention of everyone concerned was and is to make as much dirty money as possible, letting any amount of collateral damage slide, including a genocide and mass poisoning [with Covid-19 jabs]. The fact [is] that Big Pharma just murdered millions of people, with the full support of government, media, and “science”. With Covid, everyone is part of the fraud, many of them paid off, so no one has any reason to expose it, and big reasons to bury it. Don't believe anything these people tell you, ABOUT ANYTHING. It isn't time for a civil war against your neighbors, it is time for a revolution against these hoaxers and thieves." --- Miles Mathis, American author, in 2025
How can the masses potentially get out of this whole mess (and create justice, freedom and peace for all)? First, EVERYONE needs to learn, and teach others, what TRUE morality is ---99% of people don't know what it is because (1) it's NOT taught in the official indoctrination system, better know as the "education system," and (2) it's NOT the same as religious morality: https://odysee.com/@woeih:e/Mark-Passio-Government-Is-Slavery:a &
https://odysee.com/@woeih:e/Mark-Passio-Interviewed-By-Shaun-Atwood-2026-06-18:6
Because if you don't know what TRUE morality is you will not stop doing, unwittingly or wittingly, evil things...
"The solution is NOT to create something new (eg, new systems of organization, new technologies, etc). The solution is to STOP being complicit with evil. To STOP doing things that are not moral for a reward. To STOP being complicit with anything the control system tells us we must do." --- Mark Passio, Spiritual Teacher, in 2023
From a European point of view he seems to read the writing on the wall.
As much as US sociopaths take from the country and the people at their will and mostly violating laws and lying, the French youth is starting to do the same, not using the violence of power but rather physical violence. But what's the difference? Not that I agree with that but I also do not agree with the former either.
Obviously Scott has a sense of where this could lead to.
"Obviously Scott has a sense of where this could lead to."
The guillotine makes for quite a nasty passage to the afterlife.*
*Just joshing, there is no afterlife.
"He was then asked if he would be willing to redistribute some of his wealth to United employees earning far less than he does, to which he responded “of course not,”"
This is WAY too common with our self-righteous elites today. They all say we should do X, then when asked if they would personally participate, they say "of course not" without a hint of irony.
Gee, Scott, I wonder why nobody likes people like you?
How much you want to bet this guy also would refuse to participate in a national compulsory service, or his kids? They're too smart and righteous for that.
Will this American provincialist still insist on all things MAGA when the US defaults on its debt?
The funny thing about this, and about all virtue signaling filth, Kirby can go and donate it all right now, 5 mins after the interview or 5 mins before it, to the govt, to a charity, to any particular group of people or cause. No reason to wait 30-40 years if you believe in giving your money away for greater good. Yet he won't, ever, not a chance. He'll keep taking in 20-40-80M every year, not even 2-3-4, but mid-high eight figs, while telling everyone how we're all better off if the govt takes our money.
He could also lower his comp to barely-survivable 2-5-10M and say I donate the rest to the wellbeing of a poor "insert preferred victim group" - yet he won't. United is awesome and he's the main reason why, but holy smokes the guy is just insufferable.
I agree with the compulsory national service part. The only way to heal this country is to bring people from different classes and cultures together so they can see that we are all Americans. We also need the draft again; people would be a lot more cautious about war if their son or daughter was going to fight to prop up the oil companies.
I'm not sure how I feel about agreeing with Scott Kirby, but as someone who spent 20 years in indiustry, 15 in gpvernment and another 6 in education, I feel qualified to say that compulsory public service would yield an electorate that understands how government works and why it fails when it does. I hazard to suggest that we'd get more rational electorial outcomes and more rational policies.