$11 million donation to AIPAC. The world has lost nothing of value with his passing.
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Agreed. Imagine being so shitty I cheered for cancer…
Imagine reaching the pinnacle of wealth and achievement only to have this happen.
And all your money won’t another minute buy. Dust in the wind.
Didn't magic Johnson throw money at his HIV to keep it from becoming AIDS?
Pretty sure money can buy better healthcare than is available to the rest of us.
You certainly can't take it with you, but until you go it certainly buys you more time, and that's not even getting into the weeds about just paying other people to do work for you that would otherwise take your time (cleaning, cooking, house and car maintenance...)
Yeah. Money gets you the private cancer treatments. Or it gets you on the organ transplant list in all 50 states. Or pays for procedures overseas.
Certainly better than dying before that - poor and sad.
I feel personally attacked.
Article doesn’t say when he was diagnosed or what sort of cancer but unless he’d been fighting it was before Covid he probably got to enjoy his success for at least a short bit of time
Rest in piss.
Thanks for ruining the lives of people who desperately clamored to this awful existence of a company, selling their bodies off to make a cheap buck.
I’ll toss one off in his honor
But one of the first things I learned from the Internet in the 90s is that I will never ever have to pay for porn
Edit: ok, so I get that OnlyFans was more about the eSexWork part of the CumCalculus, but, still, not for me. No judgment, though. In fact, I had some friends that found it quite empowering.
I had some friends that found it quite empowering.
What's empowering about whoring yourself to the same people that are responsible for why everything is so expensive?
I don't wish cancer on anyone but I also kind of wish it on all the billionaires in the hope that they'd use their unfathomable amounts of wealth and power to "solve" this horrible disease.
Make a new Manhattan project of it. Get all the researchers together, throw money and resources on them until they find a cure for it.
Make a new Manhattan project of it.
You mean steal research from other countries under a cooperation agreement and then refuse to share?
Curing cancer would be the equivalent of the Manhattan project, the moon landing, the mapping of the human genome and the making it relatively affordabl, e the discovery of both antibiotics and phage therapy, and the development and mass deployment of vaccines. It is an achievement demonstrating such wild dominance over the struggles and complexity of the physical world that I think its only comparisons would be to something like establishment of terraformed nations on Mars.
Right now we're still developing cures for the easy cancers. Attempting to cure cancers is big business in both the pharmaceutical world and in nonprofits, and it is working, but it's slow. Unfortunately cancers are made of our own cells so even things like curing bacterial disease don't even really express the difficulty. But it's happening, and general treatments and prognoses continue to improve as well as increasing numbers of cures for specific cancers in people with certain gene presentations.
Sorry about the rant, my mom died of cancer nearly a decade ago and I'm annoyed to no end by people acting like big pharma is intentionally not curing cancer to make more money, when the reality is what I said above.
Yeah, but then only rich people will get the cure.
The multi billion dollar pharmaceutical industry and health insurance industry would fight ruthlessly against what you're proposing, which we could absolutely do and probably fast.
There's way more money in treating symptoms long term. Curing cancer is bad for business.
multi billion dollar pharmaceutical industry would fight ruthlessly against what you’re proposing
Hmm, I wonder why people like you never complain about the 'wellness' industry (influences, scam medicine pushers.. etc) which is 5 times bigger than the the entire pharmaceutical industry...
Cuba has a cure for Alzheimer’s and we keep it contained there.
Hmmm. Hmmmmmm.
It's OK gramps, let's get you back to bed.
Clearly you haven't experienced the US "healthcare" system.
On the one hand...
...while on the other...
Lol. Good riddance.
Onlyfam will be allowed to attend his funeral.
And no air conditioning…
At risk of repeating myself (just saw this above)
Sweet, NEXT
So he didn't do any of the work for originally coming up with the idea or making the site, and then he also didn't do any of the work in making the site's popular content.
I do see there is some risk and some value in investing in a company, but it seems wrong that he became a billionaire when the people who did the actual work didn't. More evidence that we don't need billionaires.
didn’t do any of the work for originally coming up with the idea or making the site, and then he also didn’t do any of the work in making the site’s popular content
Every CEO ever. Valueless drain through which money is removed
their Wikipedia article claims that he bought 75% of the site from the founders, and that the founders were still involved after the sale. Terms were not disclosed in that article, and I am not inclined to search further. But it is safe to assume the founders got their bag.
If this guy came along and made more off their work, who cares? I think those founders made enough that they don't have to worry about paying for porn ever again.
If this guy came along and made more off their work, who cares?
That money came of the backs of the performers, developers, and god only knows how many third world "content screeners" working for dollars a day to keep the site in compliance with local laws.
He didn't just get rich ex nihilio. He extracted that money from other people's hard work.
Well, yeah, that's what owners and CEOs do, make money off the backs of others. (And other body parts, too, in this case). He's no worse (or better) than the others.
That same Wiki article states that OnlyFans claims to have paid out $25B to "creators" as of last October. Ironically, these folks might be getting less screwed than content creators in other disciplines.
Ironically, these folks might be getting less screwed than content creators in other disciplines.
Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation, torment and sexual servitude
In one prominent case, influencer Andrew Tate, with millions of followers worldwide on social media, is accused of forcing women in Romania to produce porn for OnlyFans and pocketing the profits. He has denied the charges.
Something tells me that if OnlyFans didn't exist, Andrew Tate would have still found a way to be an exploitative asshole.
If Mossad didn't exist, Epstein would have still found a way to be a pedophile
If this guy came along and made more off their work, who cares?
I do. That's the thing I am complaining about. People who only contributed money taking the lion's share of the profits.
But what if the original founders got enough? If we are against billionaires existing, shouldn't we be cheering on folks who find an off ramp before getting there?
Since I wasn't complaining about the original founders, I'm not sure that this hypothetical is relevant.
What I do know is that a billion dollars is far more money than anybody needs to live extravagantly for the rest of their lives.
I saw the thumbnail and thought Charlie Cox died
For everyone going, "billionaire = evil, death = good," please think the man was just 43. Fuck cancer is the first thing that should come to mind.
I hear you, but I think “celebrate billionaire donor to AIPAC is dead” still takes priority over “fuck cancer” IN THIS Particular case.
Nature filtered out a real shithead from society.
Won't someone please think of the billionaires? They're people just like us, deserving of dignity and respect... this man spent six years guiding a machine to squeeze pennies from the lonely and desperate, paying third worlders less than a sandwich a day to meet their sexting quotas, exploiting incel's need for connection with a slow drip of synthesized hope. That has to count for something