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Billionaire Cheater Steve Ballmer: “At His Level of Wealth, Societal Ethics No Longer Register” (thedebrief.org)
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A finance expert and Fortune 500 therapist examine the potential motivations of billionaire cheater Steve Ballmer and his subordinates. Unsurprisingly, people who have enough money to do literally anything they want do not evaluate risk the same way as the rest of us. Just another sign that wealth hoarding is a mental illness, imo.

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[–] 17 points 4 days ago (14 children)

I mean history has taught me tyrants know what a rope fashioned to fit around the head and tighten on the neck means.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    Guillotines, not gallows.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    Why not both? Make it a lottery. Slow and painful choking or quick but mentally horrifying.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    All things being equal, I agree, but the gallows have historical notions of punching down, with connections with state oppression, and hanging with lynching; whereas the guillotine invokes class struggle and punching up.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Fair enough. Didn't think of it that way.

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