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    That man is repeatedly showing the world how stupid he actually is and how little he actually understands about running a company. He has never been in a situation like this where he wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of people playing babysitter and doing all the leg work to try to actually get his shit ideas to work. IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets, he really hadn’t thought any further than changing the logo and repeating the same lame idea he had 30 years ago.

    ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)

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      Or all billionaires are scum who have written the laws and ensured that the fine for this is no more than an annoyance and removing the sign without a permit was a worthwhile risk and the right call to make.

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        This guy gets it.

        I think “all billionaires are scum” is perhaps too harsh, but it’s far closer to the truth than the views of society at large.

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            Rowling became a billionaire by writing popular books and selling the movie rights. She’s a scummy person, obviously, but she didn’t become rich by being one.

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              Yeah you definitely can become a billionaire without being a scummy person, just not trough business. You need to be an artist or athlete.

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                Definitely not going to be a CEO without being a piece of shit. You need that lack of ethics to make it that high.

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                  You can literally start your own company and assign yourself CEO. It’s probably all of a filing fee away. It’s easy to become a C-suite.

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                  Which means you’re born into a weird sociopathic upbringing. Very fee born into wealth see any issues with it and even then, it tends to be short lived. One of the Johnson and Johnson heirs put out a documentary, but not much after that.

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              As you say, she’s a scummy person, so you have no way of knowing that she only became a billionaire because of the books.

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              Most of the Harry Potter stories are stolen/copies of either existing young adult novels or existing mythology. There’s very little original material or concepts. All writers borrow from other writers, but Rowling is just barely better than a plagiarist.

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            I’m pretty sure that future billionaire me seems like a cool guy, I’m totally not biased.

            Eat the rich, except if I become rich, then I’m exempt because I am a honorary proletariat

            /s but seriously tho, if anyone becomes a billionaire, they’ll soon get corrupted by the wealth

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              You don’t become a billionaire without exploiting so many people and then hording those riches to yourself. You’ve already been corrupted by that point.

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              I think for most people, they become an asshole on the way to becoming a billionaire. You don’t make that kind of money without exploitation and plundering. The only exception I could think of would be if they inherited the money. And even so, if you inherit that kind of money and don’t give out a good chunk of it, you’re still scum imo.

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      IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets

      Obviously Tweet -> Xeet 💩

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      I think we need to read between the lines here.

      I honestly think he’s intentionally driving Twitter into the ground. Thing is he can’t just fire everyone and shut down the servers or he won’t get the tax write-off. He’s burying Twitter in a way that maintains tax status. So in a way that’s smart, but also stupid he spent what he did only out of spite.

      What he’s doing to Twitter is like a jumbo jet pilot that commits suicide by crashing the plane (that’s actually happened). Why do you need to take all those innocent people with you. Just go jump off a building, same end without killing a bunch of innocents.

      Really his destruction of the platform is about control, he has some kind of personal beef with Twitter so he used his power and money to kill the whole thing. He’s taking his bat and ball and going home.

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        He has not always been pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin

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              You say that, but look at the cadre of billionaires who no longer have anything to gain from being awful… but still are.

              Old habits die hard?

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                That is a good point. I think most of them are just plain awful people who enjoy causing negatively influencing the world, while others are only awful when it benefits them.

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          He is the best billionaire. That may not be a high bar, but it’s something. If Elon Musk decided to retire and cure Malaria like Bill did (or maybe even just get back to space exploration or autonomous driving as he was doing before his Twitter craze, hopefully without fucking other people over?) I wouldn’t mind him as much

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            Most of Bill’s philanthropy was due completely to Melinda.

            I’m watching with interest what new things he does now that he’s on his own.

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          I’ll take a horrible billionaire investing in malaria research over a manchild billionaire obsessed with naming everything X.

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        You do realise it was Bill Gates who made the creators of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Vaccine make it paid and keep the methods of producing it hidden? Their original plan was to make the methods of production public, so that Governments could set up their own labs to produce more of it and save lives. There were many deaths that could have been prevented if it wasn’t for this terrible human being.

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      This is actually hilarious. It didn’t occur to me that rebranding should also concern stuff like “tweets”, mostly because I’ve never used twitter, but I’m really looking forward to what he will come up with for those terms.