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Without him, electric cars wouldn't be the almost-mainstream thing they are today.

Biggest EV manufacturer is still BYD

Get a load of this bootlicker:

Can we as a society organize and innovate without billionaires? Even China changed their economy to make them possible.

Right now, writers are on strike. Hollywood workers could invest their time, make movies, and get paid afterwards. But instead, it takes people with money to do the funding.

How should big sums of money be managed? Bureaucrats work to a certain extend but hardly innovate. Which structure could ask a million people to invest a thousand dollars each and offer ethical profits?

Mark Cuban is a bit of a wall street asshole, but he’s created a drug company to slash the prices of generic drugs for Americans

I could use my billions to buy legislators to enact Medicare for All, but then I wouldn't profit, so why?

Didn't one of the Koch brothers die? That was pretty cool.

I love being St Paul in the 1st century AD. I sure hope no one will take my letters to specific groups in Asia Minor and Europe as truths to be applied for the entire world

Is Scrooge McDuck alright or does he get the wall too?

Did anyone mention the one exploding in a submarine?

has posted some of the funniest tweets in history. The fact he's only a billionaire because he says he is makes it even better.

This is such a ridiculous question. Everyone has done one good thing in their life.

"People Of Lemmy" aka Turbo-Redditors.

Zuckerberg will have done something good when they finally let him kill Elon with his bare hands in the ring

They're all wrong

Sam Bankman Fried, he is in jail.

If any billionaire would actually did something good for once, they would rage at them doing that.

Tony Stark saved the world from Fascism

Why not have the question - what's something a billionaire has done to justify their wealth? The answer is nothing, of course, because there's no justification for being a billionaire.

For sure! I wanted to make sure someone chimed in on this. I forwarded it to an elderly hospital roommate who was extremely appreciative.

"Some billionaires did a great thing once, so they are not bad."

This is the capitalist framing of saying "I am not racist, I have a black friend."

Name me one billionaire that has provided a net good that has outweighed their net bad. You can't do it. It is fundamentally why they are billionaires in the first place because they exploited and stole from everyone else. They are not a necessary component to society, they are an eventuality of capitalism and at their very best, an inefficiency.

The ongoing copium of living inside this failing system is not only to justify them, but say they are going to save us. These people just need to admit they want a king with devine right because they don't believe any other system can work.