110
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
110 points (93.0% liked)
Futurology
2414 readers
316 users here now
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
How many billionaires can be put inside at the same time? Asking for no reason.
Pshh no way, my armchair ranting about society has done way more than the Gate’s foundation eradicating polio for the last 40 years.
I can understanding why he’s eradicating polio, too many horses get injured doing it. At least in water polio the horses suffer fewer leg injuries.
And don't get us started on ricket! /s
Raging hot take on Lemmy, but yeah, agreed. He was a bastard to get the money. All that money is going to, like, starving African kids, though. If I was him I'd do the same shit and sleep like a baby.
Meanwhile, Bezos builds dick rockets and nobody complains, because he keeps out of the headlines.
There's ~2000 confirmed billionares on Earth. Some do philanthropy, some do evil, but most just enjoy being comically rich, like Jeff.
Honestly that sounds about like what the people I know would do. This is because it's all random chance, and they are an average group of people.
Well, sure, not in the ~2000 are guys like Putin or the Saudi royals. We all know they have way more than just a billion, but we can't prove it. Then again, there's a lot of mean people who are still poor. I've met some.
The math is sound. I'm always linking that thing because more people need to know.
No good billionaires
he abused market position and squashed competitors for pretty much his entire time at the helm of microsoft.
High probability OP would take a billion dollars, and still think themselves good. Lower than 50% that they would give it all away.
I mean, Gates is working on it. and Chuck Feeney did it in one shot. It would normally be significantly lower than 50%, but I gave OP the benefit of the doubt given their stated opinion of the wealthy.
My man, you got the brainwash I guess.
Hes "grants" are usually turned down because you know billionsires want any good things that might come out of it for themselves, so there are so many strings attached you just give any found thing to billy gates. So "good".
Prove that. Like actually prove that. No billionaire is innocent. No billionaire gets where they are without stepping on necks to do so.
Show me an innocent billionaire. Quit simping for them. Gates is "least bad?" He has a PR firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/29/lets-not-forget-bill-gates-hasnt-always-been-the-good-guy
You do the rest. Here's the start.
That's not how this works