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[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 162 points 2 years ago

What really is upsetting is that Musk has billions with which he can use on a lark. Most of us would consider 100,000 an impossible risk. Billionaires are the problem. I repeat - The problem.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

Shame these guys don't build a hospital or something instead.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] Kichae@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

And that would preclude them being billionaires

[-] bafomdad@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

and being a billionaire requires being sociopathic

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 10 points 2 years ago

"But where is the fun of that?" says Elon Musk probably.

[-] JimmyJazz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Bold of you to assume they wouldn't find some way to fuck that up too

[-] mohKohn@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.

[-] Alphadef@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

You really want Musk to be in charge where people's lives are at stake?

[-] HikuNoir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People’s lives are at stake..

Idiot's have invested Billions into that fool. When the wheels final fall of Musk's CloWn cAr those billions will vanish, along with it thousands of normal jobs.

[-] Alphadef@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Well yeah, of course lives will be affected but I meant more literally, as in people potentially dying.

[-] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

And it's not like American hospitals don't make money hand over fist

[-] Bahalex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Shit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Bahalex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

He didn’t build it, but yea his name is on it because of his money. Not that PR money means he has morals. Although, it is a hospital for real human people, not other lizard types.

[-] Shit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Just the name really is a mouthful to say seriously.

[-] itsnotlupus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, it really was renamed after the Zuckerbergs, as buildings sometimes are at the request of a large donator seeking posterity.

See Wikipedia:

In November 2008, San Francisco voters approved an $887.4 million general obligation bond for the General Hospital rebuild, work began in 2009, and was expected to be finished in 2015.

In 2015, Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Priscilla Chan gave $75 million to help fund equipment and technology for the new hospital.

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There's also the UC Beniof Childrens Hospital

[-] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think you'd want any part of a hospital that Elon Musk was involved in establishing.

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