Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg increased their net worth by $96.6 billion and $58.9 billion, respectively, thanks to rising share prices on the Nasdaq

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg increased their net worth by $96.6 billion and $58.9 billion, respectively, thanks to rising share prices on the Nasdaq

  • el_cordoba@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I am convinced I’d be a terrible rich asshole. I’d never be able to hold on to that much money considering how fucked up the world is. That said, I have a conscience. Lacking one seems to be a prerequisite.

    • justhach@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hoarding wealth is like any other form.of hoarding. Its a mental illness.

      If there was a monkey in the jungle somewhere who had stockpiled enough bananas, through killing other monkeys or other exploitative means, to last a thousand lifetimes and refused to share any, we would study that monkey like crazy to figure out WTF is going on there.

      When a person does it and someone points out that its fucked, we say that the person pointing it out is just jealous, and if they only worked harder, they too could be sitting on a banana fortune.

      • justhach@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Once someone hits $999,999,999.99, we should give them a trophy that says “Congrats, you win capitalism” and then banish send them to an island prison paradise where they are hunted for sport all their needs are met, 24h a day.