StjepJan 22, 2024

Friendly reminder that if I paid you $1'000 *every day*, it would take you 2.74 years to become a millionaire. It would take you 2739 *years* to become a billionaire.

Meaning, if someone had started to give you $1000 in 715 BC (680 years before the Roman Empire even started), you would *now* have 1 billion dollars.

For comparison, Elon Musk's net worth is 251.3 billion dollars. Bezos' net worth is 168.4 billion dollars.

There are no good billionaires. They're all criminals and oppressors.

Show threadNeonkAaaJan 22, 2024
@stjepanlukac
But what would you like them to do then?
Show threadLewis

@nk @stjepanlukac

Is the human race that pathetic that it allows these vile parasites on our children's lives?

Oh yeah, sure they are.

And they worship them as idols for it too.

Jan 22, 2024 at 10:22pmWeb
Show threadDaniel DemmelJan 22, 2024
@LewisHarrington @nk @stjepanlukac here's a 2500 years old social technology to deal with exactly this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
Ostracism - Wikipedia

Show threadLewisJan 22, 2024
@daaain @nk @stjepanlukac That's brilliant. Thanks, those Greeks eh?!
Show threadNeonkAaaJan 23, 2024
@LewisHarrington
So, you propose stop using Tesla, Falcon, Starlink, Amazon, correct?
Show threadLewisJan 23, 2024
@nk Honestly I'm not in a mind to think about this rn.
I am very much for scientific progress. Telsa, for example, is an employer of engineers and that's something we very much need.
I just know a handful of men own the world.
It's obscene.
Show threadLewisJan 23, 2024
@nk https://tlio.org.uk/the-norman-yoke-britains-landless-serfs-owned-by-foreign-mercenary-landlords/
The Norman Yoke: Britain’s landless serfs, owned by foreign mercenary landlords

By Thom Forester – 1st February 2018 ​When the late Gerald Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster -often credited with being ‘Britain’s riches man’- was asked what advice he ha…

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