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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 43 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 3 hours ago

gates was and is one of the most ruthless billionaires, thats why his sudden pivoting to "helping africa" was all but disengenious, but now it made sense since the epstein files came out.

[-] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 hours ago

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?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

I fully agree with you. I been team "fuck Bill Gates" forever. I just mean that there's a whole lot of people that were jock-riding him.

[-] LumberjackRanger@leminal.space 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah the money thing can make good people terrible

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

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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