Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
Newell and Sinegal (Costco) prove that some billionaires are able to brainwash people into believing that they’re good people instead of believing their wealth could be redistributed to those in need instead of being used to buy a yacht collection. As long as there are people starving and homeless and the climate crisis is a thing, there will not be a single billionaire that isn’t an evil piece of shit.
Because you’re the one calling them “less bad” when they’re consciously making the choice to accumulate unfathomable amounts of wealth while people around them are starving and can’t afford to have a roof over their head.
Newell is less bad. It’s not my fault you’re too simple minded to understand shades of gray so I’d rather not hear about it
If someone agrees with you there are no good billionaires but adds a slight caveat, you could probably be less abrasive and just move on with your life instead of arguing and potentially pushing people away from your point of view even further.
Eh, I feel like everyone in the billionaire club is playing a slow game of poker trying to get the first “trillionaire” title. I’m expecting that when Gabe shows his hand it will be revealed that his fleet of yachts is also equipped with luxuries such as nuclear armaments.
Gabe’s net worth hasn’t increased as far as I’m concerned. I think the bad billionaires would typically be those who obsess with growing their net worth assets.
I don’t care to hear about any reasoning about “bad” vs “good” billionaire nonsense. There are people in the world that need immediate access to food and shelter, but won’t get either largely due to billionaire cunts hoarding the wealth to try and get a top score into the history books.
It’s a class of people that shouldn’t have come into existence. Their being is a strain on the rest of humanity and nature in general.
I’m not defending all billionaires, but there is nothing wrong having net worth of at least a billion because the assets came from your own company. What is more questionable is how can someone go over one billion worth of assets.
The reason they got that money in the first place is because the company charged the customers enough to generate that profit, they could just as well have cut their profit and made that billionaire a multimillionaire and all customers would have kept more money in their pockets.
They also make the decision to accumulate this wealth instead of redistributing it to those in need, that’s a conscious choice that they make.
Yes, that includes Gabe Newell and the Costco guy.
I mean dont you dare generalize a group of people unless they’re people the echo chamber agrees not to like.
ONE CANNOT CRITICISE A HERO OF THE PLOLATARIAT, COMRADE
Gabe proves there are less-bad billionaires though
Newell and Sinegal (Costco) prove that some billionaires are able to brainwash people into believing that they’re good people instead of believing their wealth could be redistributed to those in need instead of being used to buy a yacht collection. As long as there are people starving and homeless and the climate crisis is a thing, there will not be a single billionaire that isn’t an evil piece of shit.
Except that’s not what happened here and I see Gabe N get shit on on Lemmy a lot so I don’t know why you think you need to preach to me.
Because you’re the one calling them “less bad” when they’re consciously making the choice to accumulate unfathomable amounts of wealth while people around them are starving and can’t afford to have a roof over their head.
Newell is less bad. It’s not my fault you’re too simple minded to understand shades of gray so I’d rather not hear about it
If someone agrees with you there are no good billionaires but adds a slight caveat, you could probably be less abrasive and just move on with your life instead of arguing and potentially pushing people away from your point of view even further.
Eh, I feel like everyone in the billionaire club is playing a slow game of poker trying to get the first “trillionaire” title. I’m expecting that when Gabe shows his hand it will be revealed that his fleet of yachts is also equipped with luxuries such as nuclear armaments.
Gabe’s net worth hasn’t increased as far as I’m concerned. I think the bad billionaires would typically be those who obsess with growing their net worth assets.
I don’t care to hear about any reasoning about “bad” vs “good” billionaire nonsense. There are people in the world that need immediate access to food and shelter, but won’t get either largely due to billionaire cunts hoarding the wealth to try and get a top score into the history books.
It’s a class of people that shouldn’t have come into existence. Their being is a strain on the rest of humanity and nature in general.
I’m not defending all billionaires, but there is nothing wrong having net worth of at least a billion because the assets came from your own company. What is more questionable is how can someone go over one billion worth of assets.
The reason they got that money in the first place is because the company charged the customers enough to generate that profit, they could just as well have cut their profit and made that billionaire a multimillionaire and all customers would have kept more money in their pockets.
They also make the decision to accumulate this wealth instead of redistributing it to those in need, that’s a conscious choice that they make.