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With the focus of wealth inequality, I thought I'd just share this morbid reminder from the middle ages that there is no inequality in death. It will find everyone. No amount of money will let anyone escape it. Just something to consider when you are thinking about what to pursue in life. To that extent, I do feel somewhat sorry when I hear that a billionaire has died, because I know that they likely spent most of their life pursuing things that are ultimately worthless, and it makes me re-evaluate just what I am doing with mine.
But billionaires def work less than a lot of people without monies.
There are billions that work 10+ hours per day just to survive (working for and making billionaires richer).
A life with much less experiences than any billionaire, less vacations, less family time, etc.
"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."
-Hamlet, A4S3
From what I heard, this billionaire seemed like a decent person. But who knows. There are conflicting sources.
There are no good billionaires.
Yep there are a couple thousand people with an outsized impact on society and at anytime they could organize and do a lot of good. But they all sit by quietly and actively destroy the society that gave them so much.
That they took so much from* FTFY
They are exactly like gardeners that only harvest the crop and do not replant any seed. So... thieves.
That's not true! No matter what kind of billionaire he was in life, now he is a good billionaire. You might also say that all dead billionaires are good billionaires.
You do not retain assets when you die. There is no such thing as a good billionaire.
They still had family and friends, and people who loved them.
I agree that having such vast amounts of money can't be a good thing whichever way you look at it, but expressing joy when someone dies is just not civilized in my opinion. It just isn't.
What good do you think will come from simping for billionaires?