Paul CantrellKeeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization
JillL@inthehands Proof, if anyone needed it, that extreme wealth is bad for your brain. Of all the good things Rowling could have done with her money, she does this. 🙄 🤪
cambria@jillL
I don't know, I think I'd make a great billionaire. I'd buy a castle in Scotland and donate to wildcat rescues. And have a herd of house cats. And not have a social media. And leave trans people alone. Maybe even use some of that billions to give money to an org that's helpful to trans people.
This is the alternative universe JKR I wish we'd gotten.
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Rasmus Lindegaard@cambria @jillL @inthehands unless money really does rot the brain and you only think you'd do those things because you're not a billionaire.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."
So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.
@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands and all that is probably much better for your soul or humanity or whatever you want to call it, than a billion $ in your portfolio
@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.
Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.
@realtegan @cambria @jillL @inthehands oh i agree.
If you have a house/home, means of transportation, food, some leisure time and enough air in the budget for the occasional family trip, why should you want more?
@rasmus91 @realtegan @cambria @jillL
The novelist Joseph Heller was at a party hosted by some…Rockefeller or whatever, let’s just say Rockefeller.
GUEST: Mr. Heller, doesn’t bother you that •you• wrote all these great novels but •he’s• the one who got all this money?
HELLER: No, I have something he’ll never have.
GUEST: What’s that??
HELLER: Enough.
@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.
@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL
It’s one of my all-time favorite stories. And it’s about money, but it’s not •just• about money.
It’s one of my all-time favorite stories. And it’s about money, but it’s not •just• about money.
Cassandrich@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands Exactly. It's not that money rots the brains of billionaires. It's that, to become a billionaire in the first place, you had to be extraordinarily evil and shallow in your choices of what to do with money.