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what about those who inherited money?

Gates' charity work is 90% about promoting "tech literacy" and "opportunities", aka creating new future customers for Microsoft

It also misses that when billionaires do "help," they do so in ways that increase their power and reflect their (elitist, chauvinist, neoliberal, usually eugenicist, often racist) worldview. One of Bezos' rivals "gave" insane money to "cure diseases," and used it to block open patents for vaccines.

So kill all billionaires then?

He pays for the same price of a pair of jeans 👖 a homeless person pays for So sad 😞

Mackenzie Scott has given away over 16 billion to charities. I’m not saying she can’t afford it and just saying the statement isn’t always true. If all the 1% wealth was distributed to those below 25% line. We’d still have homelessness and unemployment

An off-hand comment from one of my high school teachers always stuck with me. "Oh yeah, if I were a politician I'd be as crooked as the rest of 'em." Sweet lady that didn't take shit. May she rest in peace.

I couldn't fathom having enough money to live every possible experience imaginable a 1000 times over, still have more than I could ever spend, and not do some good with it. Having that kind of wealth could change the world, yet they just keep taking more. #everythingisn'tenough

like, even if they stumbled into ten billion dollars, just them going out TO do this would get them below the billionaire line easily. *rant here bout how we shouldn't HAVE billionaires at all*

💙💙💙 #SoTrue

Being wealthy is not the issue. The issue is how you allow wealth to control them

That's not a billionaires mindset. Capitalism off the backs of working folks is

Because our reality is that there are billionaires today then they should be doing what she mentioned. Fixing shyt with their money.

If you watch Inception from this point of view, it's super cool. (Corporate spies changing how a CEO thinks, like...what if Cobb planted the idea of curing cancer?)

And Batman? Please...

Case in point-Mark Cuban

What pisses me off is just how little effort it takes to help people. Like it takes so little to go out of your way to do nice shit that I don't believe that billionaires are actually people cause how can you see bad shit happening and just do nothing about it?

money doesnt fix everything

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

His calling: fining the inauguration. 🤬

Instead he's the penguin...

Batman was rich and beat up poor people because he was traumatized...

I think most people assume they were born into a rich family, and in some cases that is true but yeah Billionaires are gonna have to play dirty to get far

Also, the people who invest in them would flee and find someone with less morals, so even if they one day turned good, it wouldn't fucking matter because they would be broke. For a fictional example see: Netflix's Iron Fist. Rich kid comes back from burning man and wants to give free healthcare.

Ditto Musk. Nothing he’s going to do as head of DOGE needs to be done. It will be pointlessly destructive and will ruin the lives of the thousands of people he’s going to have made redundant. As a sovereign currency-issuer, the USA will save nothing. He could do good, but has chosen not to.

Gates networth has doubled and more so ever since selling his Microsoft stick and "retiring". His "non profits" make him more of a fortune than Computers ever did.

Instead he is more like Smaug.

Dolly Parton, and people that do this exist, they never become billionaires.

We could fix the infant mortality rate in the US pretty quickly for not a lot of money. Inescapable conclusion is that that is not what money is for.

Exactly!! Well said!💙👊💯

this is exactly the reason billionaire must not exist, they are forcefully evil, greedy, dangerous animals. we can let one or two living in a cage, but not allow them to live and grow, fed by our chair and blood

It's like a video game you can't actually reach 100 it just resets at 99

jeff bezos is a clown who can't even afford a good hair-piece.

exactly. you don’t get to “philanthropist” level wealth without exploiting someone. why steal wealth and selectively redistribute it for tax breaks when you can not steal it in the first place?

Bill Gates?

That's a fairly recent thing too. (I like it, personally.) I think the first time I've seen "Thomas Wayne was a bastard, actually" was the Telltale games. Prior to that, the closest thing to mob ties that he had was refusing to watch Carmine Falcone bleed out on his front porch.

"Beware! Shooting billionaires might turn their kids into masked vigilantes."

otoh, as bad as the Covid pandemic was, it would have been far worse without Amazon, & other companies offering similar services being there to help a great many people get through the lockdown. No one bothered to do the analysis, but I'd bet many lives were saved as a result.

Whether or not intended that is the point. Billionaires shouldn't exist because everyone gives a little to each other. Hard, insightful creative work deserves reward, but a single person having so much they could develop their own space program is madness.

Respectfully disagree, certainly not envious just don’t understand that level of greed.

When I worked in the service industry, it was common knowledge that the wealthiest customers were also the stingiest.

And at some point what could you possibly do with more money?

The most likely point the ultra rich change from manic acquisition to giving their money away is when they decide that they need to fund an institution in their name or something else as a legacy. Some never get there, some get there sooner than others.

Bezos is building that massive clock though. So there is that.

Zack.. them pitching in is lunch money to them. What are you gonna do?

He and Fuckerburg. Instead they choose to kiss the ring.

It's about what kind of person you fundamentally are. A person like Bezos makes his money by exploiting other people's talent and expertise. A person like Dolly Parton - an artist - makes her money through her own talents, and having been poor, gives to make her community and the world better.

You have the right of it.

To me, the issue is the lack of imagination these guys have. The Robber Barons of yesteryear actually used their money to build things. They were awful people, don't get me wrong, but they weren't dragons hoarding their gold like these guys are. Like all that wealth and nothing to show for it.

Most billionaires inherited their money

And they would pay their taxes instead of hoarding it in off shore accounts.

#FACTS Most are psychopathic or dark tetrad takers.. they create opportunity, but they take the lion's share....

both wrong... if a billion dollars could "fix" that, would already be fixed. Your gov't is 40 trillion (100+ really) in debt. And people like Pelosi and other gov activists claim to have dedicated their public service careers helping those causes... and after spending billions on them, here you are.

And that’s why he’s a villain not a hero

There's a game on itch.io called You Are Jeff Bezzos where you wake up as Jeff Bezzos and must spend all his money in any way you can

I think "I don't get billionaires" doesn't imply "Why don't billionaires fix things since they have the means?" so much as "Normal, empathetic humans like myself will never be able to relate to billionaires' inhumanity and narcissistic madness"...

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Most of them are overt sociopaths.

You both missed the point here. Batman didn’t do any of those things either

He’s worth $224 billion. I think he could afford 1 billion for the homeless?

Two thoughts. I know two millionaires. Both are really nice, average people with good hearts. Second. I had lunch with an old friend, told me about how my jokes helped get him through depression. I did not know. I'm poor but so very rich. I've helped some people in life. Money is nothing.

Right. You don't get to be a muti-millionaire without stepping over some bodies. The more money, the more bodies. Most of your wealth comes from stripping it from the workers.

You're right. I think the hope is that they could get a crazy amount of positive attention from doing such acts. But, it's not really about that.

Also having that amount of money literally breaks the human brain and makes it much harder, if not impossible to acknowledge the reality of the world.

Ever See the Super Wealthy at Church ? Conflict of Interest in Tithing I’d Say 😏

Well, a Phineas Gage-level accident, and subsequent change in personality, could be doable.

We could have had fresh drinking water all over the world hundreds of years ago! but we made gas pipes and oil pipes, now even a Star link around the world. Well at least i can call my parents while i dry out on the pavement :(

I kinda like the thought

How about seizing their wealth and fixing those problems. For greater good it should be done. Red and blue magas support Al Qaeda over Assad ‘for greater good’. It isn’t that difficult

You are correct people with money should be more caring and we do have them . They support good causes Then the people with money support bad people and politics help all to support peace in our world 🌎

People have been looking down on the Gates Foundation, yet that has done some wonderful programs in many countries. There are further billionaires in other countries we don't hear of.

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... and if they paid tax on the same basis as workers there would be healthcare for everyone

Not necessarily. Inheritance is a thing. Not in Bezos’ case obviously.

Also Batman uses his billions to beat up the mentally ill.

Indian Billionaire Ratan Tata , just capped his networth and gave it away once it reached a billion or something.

instead of batman bezoid is more like rat droppings, and her comment is correct, and your comment is correct, as well.. being a greedy money hoarding clown does not bode well for being any kind of decent human, or ever being anything other than self absorbed & self important

Billionaires do their thing through philanthropy like Elon he's 425 million short on his annual distribution.

Plus. A few billion actually isn't that much in terms of fixing many of these problems long-term. Playing devil's advocate for a moment, if I was said billionaire I would question whether giving all my money to these causes would just be like bailing water out of a leaky boat.

If the baldy gimp paid his fair share of taxes, rewarded workers with a reasonable wage and reinvested some of his profits in long term projects He wouldn’t be a billionaire He wouldn’t feel the need to crawl up Trump’s shitey arse He wouldn’t look so fucking miserable all the time

...these are obstacles that they can absolutely be blamed for not overcoming but at the same time succumbing to them doesn't make them callous unempathetic nonhumans

Also, Batman is an ahole who beats up street criminals. Batman could do more to address systemic violence and injustice. F Bruce Wayne

Plus, they always go to Batman. Bruce Wayne is an ultra wealthy fella in a city overrun with poverty and crime. Most of the people he beats the crap out of are desperate.

That’s what I think!!Wealthy people used to build institutions and library’s and parks, now is just mine mine mine

It’s such an illness, that they have a compulsion to “win at money” once they’ve made so much they could never spend it all before they die of old age.

Mr penis rocket wont save you

That’s why I love these type of comments. It really highlights the difference between normal people and psychopaths

Therefor... billionaires shouldn't exist.

Honestly he should be able to do most of this if he paid real taxes

Definitely #bemoreDolly

Ted Turner is another good guy. But if we had a decent tax structure, we wouldn’t need to rely on their good graces. As a country we need to take care of those in need.

I was thinking about him playing with Suno AI youtu.be/Dem7ALd7lOs

Case in point - Dolly Parton. She would be a billionaire, but she gives so much away every year she basically refuses to get to the billionaire status.

This is my problem with Bruce Wayne's parents. I just don't buy that they made so much money being benevolent.

I agree with your assessment of Bezos but I appreciate her comment pointing out that billionaires are different. She does the same thing you are but comes at it from a different angle.

What you're seeing with these billionares is extreme greed. They've stopped caring about others. But, that doesn't have to do with success as much as greed.

Zack, that is a huge fallacy. So, you're saying that success only comes from those willing to take from others regardless of how they affect those people??!! I take extreme exception with that. It's totally possible to help others and experience success. If you balance i, all boats rise in the tide

Right?! I would go around doing so much good that, everywhere I went would be fucking orgy of happiness and joy. Then, I would REALLY be rich.

I'm not sure if its actually a lack of understand, but just an attempt to shine a light on that unhumane aspect of billionaires.

As I've posted before -- mathematically, Elon could give away a $million EVERY SINGLE DAY, and with no additional income, wouldn't run out for about 1000 years. Math based on his having about $450 billion now. Has he given away ANYTHING (except for Trump votes)?

I agree! I thought he had a heart to care about the poor veterans who fought for us all. Where is the compassion? All this greed👹😡

Normies and the offline don't think about this kind of thing. Capitalism is just the natural state of things to em.

Taylor Swift…an outlier which is why they hate her so much.

"I don't understand why Rock Stars don't just get vasectomies if they have to cheat!" was causing me a lot of pain earlier this year.

His wife is trying… I agree.. but they are billionaires because there isn’t enough.

She clearly isn't grounded in reality, which is evident from her reference to "Batman," a fictional character.

I'm not sure of Oprah's net worth but it turns my stomach to think of her Maui hillside mansion glowering over the burnt husk of Lahaina & not lifting one finger to help. She could rebuild the whole city with the change that falls out of her couch.

$5Billion invested would grow a minimum of $250Million a year. A billionaire with that much invested could remain a billionaire many times over but donate hundreds of millions every year. To grow that kind of wealth and not use it for charity is despicably selfish.

i don't think he loses anything with this venture. he's too smart for that. what he did is see a problem, and build a solution from scratch. it wasn't cheap, but he's also not doing it for profit. he's trying to help. scratch that, he's using his resources to ACTUALLY help. @mcuban.bsky.social

I disagree. Taylor Swift comes to mind…

Tbf they DID explicitly state that they didn't get it.

Bezos is a taker not a giver.

Demonizing sociopathy as a necessary component of evil is ableist and I believe you are intelligent enough to do better. This is not intended as an insult, I just feel deprogramming this type of thinking is important, particularly as a neurodivergent person