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I dislike agreeing with Burtch

Its not that all billionaires are evil per se, but a higher percentage are some version of shitty.

What they really are is a symptom of a busted system. Which isn't really their fault on an individual level, but as a class they have been trying to rewrite the rules to grant outsized benefit to themselves so they can all fuck off.
 
I’m fine with billionaires but fuck those who want to re-write the rules and fuck those who don’t realise that a) they can’t spend it all and b) the excess money is better used elsewhere for the common good

A lot of billionaires understand this but those (the Peter Thiel type) who want to spend every cent building a billionaire paradise off the coast of New Zealand can eat a bag of dicks
 
I really don't have a major issue with billionaires. If you are smart or lucky enough to invent the little umbrella on a cocktail that makes a dollar per sale, if you sell a million of them you're a millionaire. Now invest the profit and work on your next invention. There's nothing voodoo or evil about it. It does generally take money to make money though.

If you have money, through a product, job, inheritance or whatever and invest wisely you can make a fortune. If you create a cultural game-changer company like Microsoft or are a brilliant investor like Warren Buffett you probably deserve to be a billionaire.

I do agree though that a lot of times (even with Bill Gates) these guys have to do questionable things to keep building the wealth. Change the laws if they're doing anything too egregious. Some of them seem fine like Mark Cuban. And fuck the assholes who don't give a shit how much damage they do to society in pursuit of more wealth (Murdoch, Koch Brothers, Thiel, etc.)
 
It's a thousand million.

Definitely a lot, and I agree that many people can't comprehend large numbers, but I mentioned the profit of $1 per item. If you're selling millions of Windows 95 for $100 each (or whatever it was back then) or a lot of Teslas when you're the only game in town making thousands per sale, you're going to make a shitload of money.
 
The fact that those billions equate to near complete political and legal impunity, enough power to effectively push policy in the global economy, and opportunity to no longer have to create anything - simply wait for a successful venture to reach a critical threshold and buy it. It's too much power for anyone/anything built on the principles of simply making/hoarding money.
 
MindzEye said:
I dislike agreeing with Burtch

Its not that all billionaires are evil per se, but a higher percentage are some version of shitty.

What they really are is a symptom of a busted system. Which isn't really their fault on an individual level, but as a class they have been trying to rewrite the rules to grant outsized benefit to themselves so they can all fuck off.
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Yeah but he's claiming Spielberg is an evil man. Also Jerry Seinfeld.
 
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BG said:
The fact that those billions equate to near complete political and legal impunity, enough power to effectively push policy in the global economy, and opportunity to no longer have to create anything - simply wait for a successful venture to reach a critical threshold and buy it. It's too much power for anyone/anything built on the principles of simply making/hoarding money.
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I really don't think many billionaires expect to get there or have a plan to.
There's a weird "Looking down" on success going on in our society now more than ever.
 
I think we need to remember that all humans are shit and if we were billionaires we'd be hoarding our money too.

I think it's human nature, it's the Buffets of the world that are the anomaly.

I wish there were more anomalies.
 
I wish I had strong opinions about such a wide variety of things like you freaks here. I just saw Edna and Burtch go at it and had a blast reading it. It never even occurred to me that I needed to pick a side.
 
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