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.
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.
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
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.
"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.
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
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
@FinchHaven @stjepanlukac billionaire individuals and charitable organisations are the polar extremes of the same systemic policy failure. Neither should exist, and when they do, they should be extinguished at a rate proportional to their size.
Charities serve as a morality sink for billionaires, governments, and corporations to abdicate their social responsibilities into.
@stjepanlukac How can one ascertain that there are no ‘good’ billionaires when one has not met them all?
What is ‘good?’ Are people automatically ‘not good’ simply because they may not directly act in our own interest?
What if their self-interest indirectly benefits others who are not us?
Are there ways billionaires contribute to our lives which we may take for granted?
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