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[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 410 points 1 year ago
[-] zerkrazus@lemmy.world 201 points 1 year ago

As all billionaires are. Along with unempathetic sociopathic psychopaths.

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I can't fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives...but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It's a sickness.

There are no good billionaires.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

I would build SO much low income, homeless, and transition housing. I would also start my own line of bamboo products and packaging to replace plastic.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

Then you'd go bankrupt and stop supporting your "so much" housing, unless you'd gift it to those people, not give as a temporary service.

Bamboo - a nice idea. Actually I'm not sure it's that hard for you to do even now. I'm serious, if you know the pipeline, then try to evaluate how much a start would cost (for it to be barely profitable). You need, well, bamboo itself (grows like a virus, shouldn't be a problem), and on the process of making stuff from bamboo I'm not sure (I think it involves making some kind of pulp and then pressure?..), but humans do this kind of thing. Should probably start with dishes and cups.

[-] mtnwolf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Modern billionaires are the manifestation of the rampant consumerism of the masses. Want to do your part against the billionaires? Start with consuming less. Buy less. Move toward minimal.

[-] Kantiberl@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That may be the most tautological sentence I've ever read.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

Automated teller ATM machine 👍

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Personal Identification PIN Number 👍

Well yeah. If you weren't sociopathic, you wouldn't be holding onto all of your money, but would instead be trying to help people with it.

[-] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Being a billionaire means having the means to help millions of people, and deciding to instead keep all that money for yourself.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Being a billionaire means using it to acquire more money which provides more power which provides more control. Shit floats to the top.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily. It may be optimization between what you give now and what you keep for later to make more, with the total effect on others' well-being being the criterion. I mean, theoretically.

If you make a dime and immediately give it away randomly, you are making a worse decision than keeping it by this criterion. If you immediately give it away not randomly, but to somebody you think needs it, still possibly worse because you could try and make much more and then, say, open a pharmaceutical company.

Say, with cattle you'd use some for meat and some to make more cattle to feed more people. You wouldn't just slaughter the whole herd for meat. It's worse.

[-] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

You can’t be sociopathic and psychopathic - they’re different points on the same (ASPD) spectrum. Please learn what words mean before throwing them around.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Elon is as a Elon does

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