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.

@stjepanlukac
But what would you like them to do then?

@nk

Get a job, for starters

No billionaire "works" for any of that wealth

It's all created by office buildings full of Quants and Financial Managers and other parasites who know how to do nothing but use wealth to fabricate more wealth

Those parasites don't "work" either

Not at anything that you'd recognize as real work

cc @stjepanlukac

@FinchHaven
So, you say that Musk and Bezos do not have a job, correct?

@nk

Absolutely

Neither #Musk nor #Bezos do any actual *work* -- either physical or intellectual -- in any given day

Do you actual claim they do?

Exactly and with specificity what do Musk or Bezos perform as work (as any normal human being would understand it) on any given day?

I mean, seriously?

And do note: having some bullshit "Job Title" is not work

It's (maybe) showing up at the office late mornings, taking a long lunch, and leaving the office by mid-afternoon

@FinchHaven @nk It's probably called management

And they both seem to be good in it.

@jachym

"management"

Also see: "telling other people what to do, so those other people end up doing the actual work"

Yeah

For sure

Musk and Bezos are parasites

They do no actual work -- even "management"

They have office-floors of people beneath them who do the "management" -- which is *not* "work" in any reasonable sense either

cc @nk

@FinchHaven @nk I did and I am doing all in my life: physical work and intellectual if you want. Management is just another work which is needed in any organisation with more people. If you think, it is about to order others what to do, you are completely wrong.

Some people will claim, as long as you are not working manually, it's not work. Apparently, they got it wrong too.

@jachym

OK you've managed to skate right on by the fact that this started talking about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

Musk and Bezos are apex predatory capitalists

Period

Full stop

They extract obscene wealth *only* because they have office buildings full of Quants and Financial Managers beneath them who do nothing but extract more wealth from that wealth which is already held

That's the topic here

It has nothing to what *you've* been doing all your life

You're just as much of a host to these parasites as I am

Sorry

@nk