• @[email protected]
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    1771 month ago

    I hate that becoming a certain level of rich can guarantee that you will never not be rich even if you’re the dumbest motherfucker that ever tried to do business.

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      1 month ago

      Depends on how you count it. Would you consider Steve Jobs to be rich? Seems to me that he managed to find a way to graduate from his status as a rich person with his stupidity.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 month ago

        I mean he was rich, wasn’t he? Did he die poor somehow? I don’t know enough about him.

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          No no, I’m just saying sometimes they are dumb enough to kill themselves (he rejected proper cancer treatment, in favour of pseudo bullshit). That’s one way they sometimes manage to get out being rich 😂

          • @Cheems
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            61 month ago

            I mean that was just hubris

            • @[email protected]
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              31 month ago

              Yes. Terminal hubris, society needs better options than relying on it to take care of our inequality problem though.

              Eat the rich.

    • @[email protected]
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      -101 month ago

      Maybe it doesn’t reach your criteria of a “certain level”, but there’s definitely stories of people winning significant amounts of money in the lottery and being broke years later because they are morons.

      • @cuerdo
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        281 month ago

        It doesn’t, Cris Rock explained it very well:

        Kobe Bryant is rich, he gets a paycheck of 100 mil per year.

        Now, wealthy is the guy that signs that check.

        • @mPony
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          31 month ago

          Chris Rock is a pretty smart motherfucker.

          • @rezifon
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            41 month ago

            We should make sure he gets the big piece of chicken

      • @barsquid
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        231 month ago

        You need to reach the level and get the nepotism engine to collect you. A lotto winner could probably attend an event and sieg heil in front of Peter Thiel. That’s like calling a taxi into nepotism. Typical lotto winners just spend it all frivolously instead.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        You’re not seriously comparing a lotto winner to someone with global oligarch levels of wealth right now, are you? I have more respect for your intelligence than that my man.

      • @ripcord
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        71 month ago

        Right. You do have to still be smart enough in some way to retain the money/power. Or lucky/connected enough (daddy is watching out that dumb-as-rocks junior doesn’t blow all of his $100m, etc)

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          If you earned 100m in your lifetime, you’ve only had a 10th of a billion dollars.

          Musk has hundreds of billions of dollars.

          That’s a very, very big difference. He could literally set aside enough money for 10 very wealthy life times, and not even make a dent in his play money.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            I’d call earning 30 mil over 60 years “very wealthy,” which would net you 3333 lifetimes at that rate out of 100 billion.

            Starting at 18 years old At that rate you could pay off a 3 bedroom house in a major city before you were 21. Even if you had to work 8-6, 6 days a week for that money you could probably retire by 40 years old.

          • @ripcord
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            11 month ago

            That’s a good point.