Being that powerful and wealthy doesn’t happen without doing horrible things. Then, once a person achieves that status, the pressures change and they just become worse.
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There is always a club where you are not invited, because you aren't rich enough.
It’s not possible. They’ve Hoover’d up money and direct where it’s used.
At any point they could give emough back to the people to become less then billionaires. But they don’t.
Mackenzie Scott.
Bezos' ex wife has already done more good for humanity than he could ever hope to achieve
Wow! She is awesome!
She’s o.k. 🙄
That you Jeffrey?
If she were cool she’d buy a whole strip of land that goes from Canada to Mexico lobby to privatise US airspace then place SAMs on that land and blow up private jets.
Bourgeois class traitors are a rare breed, and bourgeois class traitors in powerful positions are a pipe dream. The capitalist class—which owns the means of production and gets its wealth by expropriating surplus value from the working class’ wages or by rent-seeking—are not going to save us.
I like Mark Cuban for the whole https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ thing he's doing. I have no idea whether or not he's a decent guy, but this is a decent thing to do, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Mark Cuban is the closest I can think of. Most of his wealth came from stocks he received when he sold his dot com business to Yahoo. He's invested a bunch after that. Now he does some decent things like his at cost prescriptions. He definitely seems personable and understands that he is extremely lucky.
Nelson Mandela
Closest I can think of is GabeN and like all of us he's certainly not perfect
Being a billionaire is like staying alive long enough to be a villain. They were great at something but nothing justifies holding that much power for so long.
Kim Jung Un
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Jeff Atwood (stack overflow and discourse cofounder) seems pretty cool for someone who made a shitton of money in tech. Everyone I know who's met him says he's a nice and normal human being, and he's currently funding a UBI program as well as giving copiously to high-quality charities.
Jay Pritzker (governor of Illinois) seems like an okay dude.