From “don’t be evil” to “be extra evil” in a few short years. But this doesn’t mean he’s somehow an exceptionally terrible person. Pretty much anyone who gets into a position like this will turn out this way. Which is to say, billionaires simply shouldn’t exist.
Man, just once, I’d like to see a billionaire that decides to spend enormous amounts of money on cool shit, without also being a terrible human being. Basically thinking of Musk, but the version of him that most people thought he was back when SpaceX was first making waves. That was all ruined by the fact that he turned out to be a Nazi.
Like, if this guy has $300 billion, I wish he would just get it in his head one day that he wants to see real high speed rail in the US and just throw $100 billion at it to force it to happen. Not because it’s profitable, but because it’s cool, and having $200 billion vs having $300 billion makes absolutely no difference to anything.
No one who gets to have that enormous amount of money in the first place is a decent enough person to spend it in good will.
Any person with 100 million dollars is set for life. Having more than that is simply greed.
A person with the funding and genuine intent to have “the boring company” develop and execute the Hyperloop would have done it by now, instead of having it just be tubes with fuckin Teslas in them
Unless you inherit it, and somehow beat the odds by not being a piece of shit like your parents
Once you get into a position like that, you’re basically just surrounded by yes-men who tell you how great you are non-stop. It would take a very strong character to not go bonkers in that kind of situation. Add to that the fact that people who become billionaires will be pretty self obsessed to begin with and you have a recipe for disaster. Actually, the crusty old French philosophers had this shit figured out 250 years ago.
True, but I feel like they are all missing out on the opportunity for some long term ego stroking. Just look at half the early skyscrapers built in the early 20th century; the Chrysler building for example is named after the man, not the company. Do it right and people could be praising the Brin Rail System for decades to come, and he’d be remembered forever for that. Instead he’s just one more tech-douche, and that’s all he’ll ever be remembered as.
Yeah but the people who built these skyscrapers during the gilded age weren’t exactly paragons of virtue.
Not saying they were. Just saying that the self aggrandizement of assholes can result in cool shit for the rest of us. Instead we get boring assholes who just sit there jerking off to a number going up.
Doing something good for bad reasons is still doing something good.
CEOs, most billionaires, they’re psychopaths. That’s why they’re good at the job. Now we have a bunch of psychopaths controlling all the wealth in the world. If you look through history, they’ve always been the enemy.
I think the Bezo’s Ex is doing that, but she didn’t (directly) choose to be a billionaire.
Yeah, there are studies about this. Once people get a certain amount is power, empathy starts to break down and they can’t see other people’s perspective anymore. That means they also don’t care about others anymore.
He’s just standing there. No helmet. No armor. Just standing there being evil.
I’ve got this nice armoured car that he can have. I’ve cunningly disguised it as a woodchipper, all he needs to do is jump right in.
Or be pushed inside. Or dangled and then slowly lowered into it.Where can I read this fan fic?
Why is he dressed like an evil 4th Amigo?
Would you say he has a plethora of money?
Because he’s a rich dipshit.
I laughed out loud. Thank you.
Little bit of additional context:
5% of 311 billion is 15.55 billion.
57M is about 0.018% of 311 billion.
311 billion is an obscene amount of money.
How about we start eating them now?
They’ll need some tenderizing first.
Why is he wearing an airport carpet?
His casino carpet is at the cleaners.
I thought that was a bowling alley carpet.
Does he have any young kids who have recently gotten into bedazzling?
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Don’t do evil? More like pretend to care about people until you become an oligarch. We have seen it in Sergey, we have seen it in Elon, we have seen it in Sam. It is the same game all the time.
Bernie is totally right. Spoiled Americans have no moral anymore.
The best thing you could do is hold a public execution of the Richest Person in the US every year on Independence Day for instance. He would be forced to give away half of his fortune to the people, or he would sit in the chair. New elections every year. Just watch how quickly no one would want to be the Richest anymore… I think that would be very refreshing. But sadly America is not there yet. Has to go down the sewer before they get that.
Unfortunately the rich can move to different countries much easier than the poor.
They would just move to Europe or Canada or something rather than give away half their wealth.
Sergey: “If you ever need to know the answer to if you should do something or not at my company then follow the instructions on the wall!”
Don’t be evil
Sergey: “Oh! They got this all screwed up”
Don’t! be evil
I say we grant them their dream of a world without poor people, by segregating them permanently away from non-billionaires, and let them trade their worthless currency amongst each-other.
How long before they started raiding blue state cities because they can’t survive without federal subsidies
Raid with just their team of other billionaires?
Honestly, how else do you solve this without gulags? IMO capitalist realism can’t be undone by simply consuming the rich. It would require deprogramming.
Not gulags, exactly, but reeducation is absolutely necessary
I just don’t know how you do it when roughly a third of your country needs deprogramming from their cult.
Don’t tax them kill them kill their renfields kill their vile spawn burn everything they took from us and salt the earth they have defiled with their foot steps it would make me feel cute
I mean yes but also if we are already killing them don’t salt the land. Take it and grow sustainable crops instead.
I thought Googles founder was peppa
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