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Being that powerful and wealthy doesn’t happen without doing horrible things. Then, once a person achieves that status, the pressures change and they just become worse.
There is always a club where you are not invited, because you aren’t rich enough.
It’s not possible. They’ve Hoover’d up money and direct where it’s used.
At any point they could give emough back to the people to become less then billionaires. But they don’t.
Mackenzie Scott.
Bezos’ ex wife has already done more good for humanity than he could ever hope to achieve
Wow! She is awesome!
She’s o.k. 🙄
That you Jeffrey?
If she were cool she’d buy a whole strip of land that goes from Canada to Mexico lobby to privatise US airspace then place SAMs on that land and blow up private jets.
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Bourgeois class traitors are a rare breed, and bourgeois class traitors in powerful positions are a pipe dream. The capitalist class—which owns the means of production and gets its wealth by expropriating surplus value from the working class’ wages or by rent-seeking—are not going to save us.
I like Mark Cuban for the whole https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ thing he’s doing. I have no idea whether or not he’s a decent guy, but this is a decent thing to do, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Mark Cuban is the closest I can think of. Most of his wealth came from stocks he received when he sold his dot com business to Yahoo. He’s invested a bunch after that. Now he does some decent things like his at cost prescriptions. He definitely seems personable and understands that he is extremely lucky.
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Closest I can think of is GabeN and like all of us he’s certainly not perfect
Nelson Mandela
Being a billionaire is like staying alive long enough to be a villain. They were great at something but nothing justifies holding that much power for so long.
Kim Jung Un
🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵
Jeff Atwood (stack overflow and discourse cofounder) seems pretty cool for someone who made a shitton of money in tech. Everyone I know who’s met him says he’s a nice and normal human being, and he’s currently funding a UBI program as well as giving copiously to high-quality charities.
Jay Pritzker (governor of Illinois) seems like an okay dude.
Closest I can think of is post-Microsoft Bill Gates, with the humanitarian/healthcare stuff he’s been involved in. He was a total piece of shit as Microsoft’s CEO, though, what with the aggressive anti-trust practices and all. Not that the ones that came after were much better (especially Ballmer).
The Gates foundation explicitly lobbied against Oxford’s initial plan to open source their covid vaccine. Gates’ worship of intellectual propery law is responsible for the patent on the astrazeneca vaccine. The project was initially started under the hope that the third world being able to manufacture their own vaccines without owing royalties would be important in limiting the spread of covid.
What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he’s actually a “good person”. He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.
He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he’s the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.
He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht
The “humanitarian/healthcare” stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t the case.
Also introduced voucher schools because he didn’t want teachers telling him laptops won’t solve education
Bill Gates’ PR machine strikes again.
When people say “climbing the corporate ladder” the only image that comes to mind is a ladder shape made of coworkers and whoever is capable of stepping on more heads is declared the winner