Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
  • @[email protected]
    28•1 month ago

    Always remember that a billionaire didn’t become billionaire by chance: they got there by trampling over other people and lying on their tax return forms. Nobody with a sense of decency becomes obsenely rich because decent people don’t do these things.

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 month ago

    What about a dead billionaire?

    If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I’d be like “That’s good. That’s an improvement.”

    • davel [he/him]English
      7•1 month ago

      Is this ever an ironic allusion, because the starship troopers were the fascists, who would have fought for the billionaires.

  • HubertManne
    4•1 month ago

    The my space guy really shows this. Anyone with any sanity would stop around a 100 mil or so and just go enjoy their life. Heck a large amount would do so at 10 and for folks who could live frugally if they have lots of life left 1 mil would do.

  • TacoButtPlugEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    Occasionally Warren Buffet will say something that resembles what a normal human would think but then Berkshire Hathaway comes in a cleans out fire victims in shock.

  • @jordanlund
    -4•1 month ago

    George Soros?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

    “As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion,[9][10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations,[11] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.”