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[–] 60 points 6 months ago (14 children)

For anyone that still needs to hear this: there are no good billionaires! ABAB. This dude right here was the poster child for "good billionaires'. I don't know whether only evil fuckers can become billionaires (probably), but I do know that having access to functionally unlimited wealth and power will inevitably warp your soul.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This dude right here was the poster child for "good billionaire"

    Really? I mean he tried really hard to whitewash his image with his charity and malaria research, but he was always a piece of absolute shit and the ‘good billionaire’ label was always a scam: DOS deal games, monopoly behavior, billionaire policy capture through his foundation, education meddling, vaccine-IP politics, nothing he did was truly charity, everything was self serving.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Any good billionaire could donate down to being a hundred-millionaire and live a life of obscene comfort for generations. Why wouldn't you, if you weren't trash?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    a billionaire would never give enough away money to make themselves poor, they are too use to that lifestyle. like a millionaire dont want to be 10 or 100 thousandaire.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Being a hundred-millionaire is not making yourself poor or even giving up that lifestyle.

    But yeah, of course they don't do it: billionaires can't be good people.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    ONLY POSSIBLE way is they "DIE"(which is a hit or miss, like for example some med school recieved 1bn+ donation and it gave free tuition, however it allowed the med school to exclude disadvantaged people because they can be more selective(like making the entry into med school harder) or lose all thier money from horrible investments.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah the money thing can make good people terrible

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine winning the game. But you have decades of your life left. By definition, you have access to the most exclusive of everything. Nobody ever tells you "no". I'm not surprised these fucks decide that even the the most universal social taboos shouldn't confine them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The thing is, you can start to taste that at a much lower level, that's why everyone tries to get there. Normal people would retire and look to enjoy their life at $100 mill. But once they get that taste, they want more of it. That's why we put down lions, sharks and crocodiles after they eat a human. Oh, and because they're not billionaires.

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