Agreed. Imagine being so shitty I cheered for cancer…

And all your money won’t another minute buy. Dust in the wind.

Article doesn’t say when he was diagnosed or what sort of cancer but unless he’d been fighting it since before Covid he probably got to enjoy his success for at least a short bit of time

Curing cancer would be the equivalent of the Manhattan project, the moon landing, the mapping of the human genome and the making it relatively affordabl, e the discovery of both antibiotics and phage therapy, and the development and mass deployment of vaccines. It is an achievement demonstrating such wild dominance over the struggles and complexity of the physical world that I think its only comparisons would be to something like establishment of terraformed nations on Mars.

Right now we're still developing cures for the easy cancers. Attempting to cure cancers is big business in both the pharmaceutical world and in nonprofits, and it is working, but it's slow. Unfortunately cancers are made of our own cells so even things like curing bacterial disease don't even really express the difficulty. But it's happening, and general treatments and prognoses continue to improve as well as increasing numbers of cures for specific cancers in people with certain gene presentations.

Sorry about the rant, my mom died of cancer nearly a decade ago and I'm annoyed to no end by people acting like big pharma is intentionally not curing cancer to make more money, when the reality is what I said above.

He had other plans for his money

Make a new Manhattan project of it.

You mean steal research from other countries under a cooperation agreement and then refuse to share?

And you imagine they'd just give the cure (whatever form that may be) away for free? That's not what billionairs are known for! Can you imagine the calamity that such power would cause? People getting a personalized quote for curing managing their cancer, which will definitely include an "affordable" monthly payment. There is an applicable recent Black Mirror episode giving you an idea of a similar scenario.

No, if there is ever such an endevour, I sincerly hope it will be funded by public money and there may no patents come forth of the research or cure.

Yeah, but then only rich people will get the cure.

He certainly didn't become a billionaire by charging them reasonable fees for the financial and computational infrastructure his company provided.

I mean taking a cut is pimpish but at least they aren't getting beaten up and physically abused and getting STDs and whatnot.

It is a little better for them.

Thing is though legalized and well regulated full on prostitution would also be better than traditional pimps as well.

It may sound weird, but the only person I follow on OnlyFans (and have paid for) is a friend of mine, someone I've hung out with in real life. She only did it because she was struggling to make enough money, even with a job!

It was a little weird, I guess, to see her boobs online and then go hang out at her house, but whatever.

Oh, also I guess I follow Markiplier who posted "tasteful nudes" and donated all the money to charity.

especially one that donated to AIPAC.

Counterpoint: there is plenty of poorly shot amateur porn that's free on pornhub. I've done some research.

Disagree. Some amateur porn was about exhibitionism but most of it was about money and that money was more often than not made by human slavers. I think onlyfans is a net good for this particular industry and the issues of "spam" and content moderation are entirely separate - it's the platforms that promote this spam as horny users are spending more time and money on the platform.

"Back in my days the women of porn were properly underpaid and fully exploited to do exactly what I wanted for way cheaper!"

I'm not mourning the death of a billionaire. And sure, the advertising of pornographic content could probably use a bit of regulation... Heck, that probably applies to advertising more broadly. But I'm not upset that sex workers today have alternatives to working with sketchy producers. I'd rather a #girlboss spam Facebook (which you shouldn't be using in 2026 anyways) than a GirlsDoPorn situation.

he also funds AIPAC, so nobody shedding tears. OF puts the money back in the hands of the "OF" acct users. Porn industry, the studios control all the money, or have the ability blacklists actors they dont like.

So he didn't do any of the work for originally coming up with the idea or making the site, and then he also didn't do any of the work in making the site's popular content.

I do see there is some risk and some value in investing in a company, but it seems wrong that he became a billionaire when the people who did the actual work didn't. More evidence that we don't need billionaires.