Doesn’t matter what you are paid. You can be making a billions or $12/hr, you are still profiting off unethical behavior of others.

She allegedly made her first billion in 2005. It literally couldn’t have been from book sales.

Why not? The first Harry Potter novel was released in 1997. By 2005, 8 years later, she has release 6 of the 7 Harry Potter books.

Thousands of underpaid workers in publishing offices, marketers, delivery drivers, and bookstore workers.

Really? By that standard, everyone is unethical. I’m quite sure if I dig deep enough I can find something in your job’s supply chain that’s can be unconsidered “unethical” and using your guilt by association logic, you are an unethical person too.

You can’t make a billion dollars honestly

Again, you have no justification for this assertion.

is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement

Thank you. Exactly my point. Best not to make such statements that you can’t back up and are of questionable soundness.

I LOVE Lemmy because it has the oldschool Reddit vibe where people will disagree and neither person is downvoting the other. They just have civil discussion. Much better!!

Enjoy while it lasts. It won’t be long before this place becomes exactly like Reddit. It’s already beginning to happen - especially when you talk about politics or politics-related stuff.

Downvotes should be for off topic posts/comments or spam.

Disagreement is best communicated by replying saying you disagree and why. It’s a discussion forum. Talk.

quality of answers only drops off when prompts are poorly crafted

And people think GPT4 is approaching AGI …

Fair enough. What about J K Rowling? (Her politics notwithstanding as it has nothing to do with how she made her fortune.)

It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.

So what is the amount. How do you justify it - other than “because I said so”?

I really want to hear how people justify why they think Michael Jordan has made his billions unethically.

There’s an old saying, you can become a millionaire through honesty, integrity, and hard work, but you can’t become a billionaire.

IMHO the saying is nonsense. Why do we draw the magic line at $999,999,999.99 USD? This there something special about that number?