• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    4 天前

    A truly disgusting human being.

    With that kind of wealth, imagine all the good he could do. He could improve living conditions for millions of people. He could fight climate change, buy vast amounts of rainforest and save it from being chopped down, there’s almost no limit to what he could achieve by helping humanity as a whole.

    Instead he lets himself be used by dumb wannabe dictators, shows the Hitler salute, builds cars that look like the wet dream of a six year old, calls his family members mentally ill, hoards all this wealth.

    Even if it wouldn’t be out of true altruism, how can he not see that being a tiny bit less of an asshole and doing some good would at least improve his personal image and help grow his business?

    I literally cannot put into words how much I despise this man.

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        4 天前

        He prefers sending rockets that are shaped like his micropenis into space over paying for one blind child’s eye surgery.

        This is all we need to know about his character.

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          To be fair, penises happen to be shaped like the most efficient rockets we know how to build right now.

          Now, the fact that we have a space race between private space companies each mostly funded by a single individual that’s a horrifying demonstration of the failures of the world’s tax systems. No individual nor individual family should be that wealthy.

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      https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

      This always gets to me.

      “Contaminated water is a major source of disease, including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. It is estimated that contaminated water kills about 829,000 people every year, making it one of the world’s biggest killers. The cost to provide clean water and waste disposal for everyone on earth would be about $240 billion, or 8% of the wealth controlled by the 400 richest Americans.”

      He alone could fund clean water and plumbing to the entire world. Without changing his lifestyle at all.

      Not one city.

      Not one state.

      Not one country.

      The world.

      Billionaires are disgusting and don’t deserve to be called human.

      "These programs combined would completely transform our world. By redistributing this wealth, millions of lives would be saved. Billions would be rescued from poverty and disease. By inconveniencing just 400 people, the entire human race could advance to a new, unprecedented level of development.

      And all of them would still be billionaires afterwards."