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What a lovely thing to do. (lemmy.world)
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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 103 points 2 months ago

This is well out of reach for most of us to replicate, but think about Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk... These dragons could change the entire world, yet they instead only seek personal gains and the disruption of positive progress.

Good for this guy and his family, though. He did what so many will never care to do.

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago

I mean, they are changing the entire world...

[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Literally lmao. Hate Bezos all you want but the US can't live without Amazon now; it's another Walmart/Target now.

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

i haven't ordered anything from Amazon for years. i think we would live.

[-] Evrala@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not going to renew my Amazon sub when it expires. I say it's for moral reasons but honestly it's cause they've made the search so incredibly awful.

I'll search for things with the exact product name, still end up having to scroll down a ways to find it.

I'll go back to buying direct from manufacturer websites.

[-] get_the_reference_@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

I got hooked on that no shipping and Amazon Video for a short while, but I haven't missed ordering from then in the last 8 or so months since I cancelled. As far as missing the video, yarr, avast ye hearties!

[-] Evrala@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thing with the video, I already get it from alternative means even while paying for it because Amazon doesn't like to play in full quality on Linux.

[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

What about the majority of the internet that runs on AWS things?

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

AWS definitely indispensable.

Amazon, I'd like to hear your case for "too big to fail".

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Azure, GCP, OCI

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I base my statement on AWS outages always being news.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah but if it weren't an option we would adapt. Commerce would not grind to a sudden halt.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

And all it took was anticompeting anyone who could provide a better service.

[-] s3p5r@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It can, it just doesn't want to.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… These dragons

The only sense in which they're dragons is "dragon deez nuts across our faces".

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All the positive things they could be spending their money on that wouldn't put a chip in their wealth and the only charities any of them do keeps turning out to be ways to hide their money from the tax collectors.

[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Let's not lump Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk together though. I feel weird defending Bezos, but he does have a big charitable fund that's quite transparent about how it spends its money. As for Elon, he's allegedly given billions to charity, but has never specified what that charity is and given his views on things it's probably appropriate to consider that highly suspect.

[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

I wish more millionaires and billionaires would use their exorbitant wealth for community service. Clearly they can still be wealthy and make positive impacts in the world.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

I have a hard time imagining not doing that if I were rich. The constant motivation to do something to help people would be so strong.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

That's what happened to Rockefeller and Carnegie. After, I think, Vanderbilt died Rockefeller and Carnegie got into a competition to see who can give away the most money. They donated buildings, money, and all sorts of stuff till they died. The thing is, they were making so much money through their businesses they ended up with more money when they died.

Of course this "change of heart" the 2 had was after decades of competing to be the richest man in the world. They accomplished this by not paying workers enough, and even making production more dangerous. The steel workers were being injured at a rate of 1 in 9. They should have been taxed properly to begin with and pay their workers better instead of calling pinkertons to shoot them when they striked.

The Pinkerton/steel workers were Carnegie. Rockefeller had his own problems, include running newspaper articles saying electricity is dangerous and burns down houses, so stick with Rockefeller kerostine lamps or other trusted oil products.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Electricity did burn down my house though

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of how people were claiming, technically rightish, that seat belts injured a ton of people when they were first made legal way back when.

Like yea, injuries due to car crashes spiked a ton that first year but that's cause people stopped fucking dying in car crashes thanks to them.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Head injuries also went up in the military after the introduction of the metal helmets in WW1. Some extra critical thinking might tell you those head injuries would have been deaths of not for the helmets.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Electricity doesn't kill people, misusing guns - I mean misusing electricity kills people

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 23 points 2 months ago

If we taxed them and closed loopholes, we wouldn't have to depend on them being generous on a whim and paying their fair share...

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

You’re absolutely right they need to be heavily taxed, but the government has plenty of money and they aren’t doing anything like this. So taxing the rich appropriately still wouldn’t lead to outcomes like this, which is what makes this guy special.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

We could easily make them do that.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

oh no, dont say the T word

[-] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 13 points 2 months ago

Trebuchet?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I’d be a full on hedonist. Donate to causes in person for the smiles and the thanks.

Having my name on stuff - eh… not as important b/c I see how colloquial names are given and dedicator’s names[1] are ignored.

[1] Bay Area people: you ever hop on the Nimitz or Junipero Sera? More like the 880 or the 280. Or do you hear “John F. Kennedy Space Center” or just “Cape Canaveral” when rockets launch?

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'd like to go around leaving big ass tips. 5 dollar coffee, here's a 1000 dollar tip.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They all want to be remembered and worshiped for what they accomplished by seeing numbers go up in their bank account.

They are too egotistical to realize they would actually earn respect, adoration and have a legacy if they put their money towards helping the world be a better place. Instead they seem to think having a dick measuring contest via rocketships is a good way to help humanity.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

And this is why good people who got rich don't stay rich and people who do are usually selfish assholes. Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, he could have literally built hundreds of amusement parks for disabled people with the same money. Or do literally a thousand other things to make life for other people better. Instead he bought a toxic social media platform to make it even more toxic.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Technically speaking he could have built 4,823 of these amusement parks and still be a billionaire after.

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

He bought twitter because he was trying to do a pump and dump with the stock. Then the SEC said we warned you once you better be serious this time. He decided buying twitter for a massive premium was better then possible prison time.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

He bought twitter because he was trying to do a pump and dump with the stock.

Maybe, but the fact of Saudi and Russian backing of his takeover and his turning twitting into (more of) a nazi propaganda shithole suggests that was the main purpose behind the acquisition - especially when the cost was an absolutely trivial fraction of his overall wealth.

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's why they loaned him the money. Most of his wealth is Tesla stock. He either needed loans or to sell a bunch of stock.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

It's called Morgan's Wonderland. The father's company has also built a community center next to the park.

[-] Jode@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago

I read "A Texas dad sold off his business..." and expected that to go in a different direction.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

Talk about spending your money for a great cause, on top of being an amazing father!

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

I saw a video clip of this place in a local news report somewhere. This guy's a badass.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

This just makes me think of south park where Cartman buys a theme park but with a more wholesome twist.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Yes slightly more wholesome

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

How special do my needs have to be?

[-] Intrama@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's beautiful of him. 💓

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