• frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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      13 hours ago

      Yes, there is. There’s Elon who is worse than Taylor. Bezos, also worse. But there’s more in common between swift and musk than between swift and her fans.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      The answer is no, to become that rich you need to not care a single bit about the rest of humanity.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 hours ago

        Not really. What about someone like Notch? Sold Minecraft for $2.5B and became an instant billionaire, no exploitation there.

        Now he became an asshole after the fact, but there has to be some people who can become extremely wealthy without taking from others. Sure once you get there by luck and hard work then you should be giving back.

        What about the guy that Elon had issue with on Twitter from Sweden who sold something to Twitter and become very wealthy but wanted to pay as much tax as possible etc and just be a nice dude.

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        14 hours ago

        Or conversely you have to place your own self worth so high that I would consider it a mental disorder.