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OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company (mashable.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (10 children)

People have grown up reading comic books and watching movies about generous billionaire superhero saviors. They want to believe that exists because it's what they've been taught justice looks like.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Surprising, since Lex Luthor was often portrayed as a wealthy billionaire.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like Luthor was a better counterexample for this before the model for his billionaire redesign was elected President of the USA.

    Even so, Luthor hasn't had quite the same volume of appearances as Iron Man, Batman, Captain America and the other rich superhero tropes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And yet the problem was never that he was a billionaire, and Lexcorp was never portrayed as anything but an industrial powerhouse whose existence was ultimately good.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Lexcorp was never portrayed as anything but an industrial powerhouse whose existence was ultimately good.

    The largest international arms dealing firm that did Captain Planet Villain tier pollution, corruption, and financial scams was "ultimately good"?

    Didn't Lexcorp literally clone an army of Doomsdays?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Obviously it's going to be the "villain" as Lex's plaything but it's also on that "job creator" cope.

    https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/LexCorp

    Employs literally 2/3 of Metropolis's population lol. Lex even handed it over Superman at one point and made him the CEO because he was on a "Earth needs Superman" arc while obviously CEOs are the real heroes and such, and what are you going to do, Superman? Unemploy a supermajority of Metropolis? It NEEDS Lexcorp, etc etc.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They do exist they just prefer to be anonymous in their altruism so nobody hears about them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How convenient that a counterexample can't be named

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Actually, this is part of Jewish society. Essentially, one is not supposed to do it for glory. I suspect that part of that is to avoid getting letters pleading for more money from those who they have helped or who knows that they helped someone. A lot of charities share/sell donor lists.

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