I appreciate your optimism.
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Let's not forget he's not a trillionaire, unless he sells his stock and realizes their "value".
In the same way that no one is a billionaire and very few people are multi-millionaires.
I know, but if they're not rich for the tax collectors, they shouldn't be rich for the news agencies, the groupies or the history writers.
As if anyone was gonna forget this douche
You're underestimating how short term people's memories are.
Thomas Edison is damn near deified.
He was worse than Musk.
Do you know the names of the billionaires of the late 1800s and early 1900s who exploited workers ruthlessly and caused countless deaths? They should be well known by everyone.
Rockefeller and Carnegie are still well known for being such greedy assholes they had to bribe every American city with libraries, theaters, and museums so they could leave their mansions without getting shot
Present day billionaires also launder their images using half assed public works and "charities." Bill Gates has been trying for decades to remove his stench with the Gates foundation.
Gates and Buffett are, yeah. The younger crop aren't even pretending.
Let's call it a silver lining
I don't think that he'll be that much more prominent over this happening