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I like the cut of your jib, sailor.
Except for that one billionaire's son who was likely coerced into going with Dad and didn't fully understand the risks ... :( but otherwise, - yup -
He's the only person I had any sympathy for, that was definitely his dad's idea.
Yeah, I do feel bad for the son, he was just 19
There are no good billionaires, all of them are scum. Yes, Bill Gates is included, regardless of all the donating he does. Until the day someone becomes a billionaire off of an idea to truly better humanity, like a cure for cancer, aids, etc. Actually useful technology, like a way to interface a camera with the brain to restore sight, or something like that. There will never be a good billionaire.
Until the day someone becomes a billionaire off of an idea to truly better humanity, like a cure for cancer, aids
If they were good then they would give it away and not become a billionaire
Torvalds is probably the closest example we have to revolutionary betterment today and he’s not a billionaire
Yeah, Torvalds is a great guy, i love that he hasn't become complacent and enshitified Linux
I've seen optimistic estimates that Linus makes ~$10 million per year from Red Hat stock. Even if that were true, it would take 100 years for him to be a billionaire. Can we focus on the actual billionaires before coming for him?
No one was coming for him
I was using him as an example of a good person
Sorry, misread that!
I agree, there are no good billionaires. The moment they donate all their billions they are good but they are no billionaires anymore. "good" and "billionaire" are mutually exclusive.
Bill Gates has never been a “good” billionaire. Think of all the shady shit Microsoft did under his tenure to make his billions. Yeah, his foundation does good - but that’s all press image polishing to make you forget what he did before.
I know, that is why I called him out specifically
Even then they would only become rich from the idea by skimming wages off of the people actually implementing and distributing it.
Nevermind all of the support that goes into a discovery like that. Like look at all the work that went into recent miracle discovery the mRNA vaccine.
That is a valid argument
There's literally two astronauts stuck in space right now. They've been stuck there for months because Boeing's shit keeps breaking.
Not billionaires though.
I have no idea how you could explain Boeing's failures other than C-suite greed.
The reason for Boeing's recent failures are actually well known: They purchased McDonnel Douglass and became defense contractors.
When they did that all of the McDonnel Douglass execs they acquired were able climb up the ranks of Boeing because they had political connections to get those DoD contracts. The story is the Boeing corporation acquired McDD but McDD execs acquired Boeing.
What happened next is Boeing started doing normal DoD contractor practices and outsource as much as possible to cut costs and open new non-union shops. The clusterfuck that is Boeing now is the outcome of that process.
Obviously you can still call this "c-suite greed" but that would be missing some important details.
Sadly the employees were also amongst the victims, just doing their job :(
Employees? The mini sub only had one "employee", who was the owner of the company, not a billionaire afaik, but billionaire enabler.
He was probably thinking about the ship Titanic
I was talking about the Titanic.
... Old?
18 months ago = fossil ?
Apparently.