“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

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    Having all those billionaires there gathered at once would be a massive opportunity to create a huge transferable amount of wealth under the right circumstances.

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        You’re only bringing that up because it’s a highly relevant and logical solution to the problem of isolated and ego driven wealth objectively and negatively affecting society on a global scale, way to strawman, libtard.

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          You forgot to defend the conservative ideal of the Roman empire as the supreme fascist state! You need to talk about how the romans allowed the free market (with the guiding hand of daddy imperator) to determine where the money should go! Tell them that the money was used to build roads, not for trade, but to march their very manly soldiers on against the commies and the libs!

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    The activists have been heavily criticised by city officials, who argue that such high-rolling visitors are an important source of income.

    I hope the voters remember to kick these politicians and officials to the curb. They clearly don’t work for the people they represent

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      All they see is income and screw everything and everyone else. Way too much of that right now from governments and corporations.

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    They can have their wedding in one of their beloved tax havens, not in some crumbling city that should be preserved as well as possible.

    Doesn’t Venice take a tax for each visitor? They should up this as much as possible. If you really want to go there you can pay a 100+ euros.

    Don’t get me started on cruise ships and the clientele on there.

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      Indeed, they do have a tax. But it’s essentially a tourist trap / tourist heaven now, a giant partying hub with few notable events that appeal to the ‘haute culture’ that, somehow, feels consumeristic in nature.

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      Tax based on yearly income of the individual. Even with the creative accounting these shits do, it will still dwarf what normal people make.

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    That picture. He’s one monocle away from being a bond villain and she looks like she’s halfway through the transformation into a vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He’s even got one eyebrow raised like the monocle is already there. I wonder if he’s just used to wearing one in his evil lair.

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    I’m with the locals on this one. Bezos should go attempt something anatomically impossible on himself.

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    This is the actual answer. Remember Greenpeace, who would set sail to interrupt oil tankers?

    Sailors in the Vaca Navy, what’s the point in having wealth if you can’t enjoy it?