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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 179 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It all sounds well and good but I have a hard time swallowing any Billionaire advocating for ethics.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 82 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They're all pretty shitty, but Cuban is at least one of the less shitty ones. His work on reduced cost pharmaceuticals has been life-changing for some people, and is a really nice break from big pharma constantly trying to fuck you as hard as they can.

Yeah he's probably dying in the revolution, but towards the end. Assholes like Musk or Shkreli are far, far worse.

[–] InternetUser2012 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm staying neutral. I want to like him, but the last rich as fuck guy I thought was funny and was going to change the world for the better turned into one the biggest assholes on the planet.

[–] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Musk (assuming that's who you're referring to) was never funny. He was always a fucking loser with the level of humour of an edgy, dumb, tryhard teenager. Almost everything about him is a lie, he just managed to keep it under wraps while his PR machine painted him as a quirky genius.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Musk is a Supervillain. I knew that right from the start.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nah super villains are cool and successful. Musk is somehow the world's richest man and still a loser whose kid hates him.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

still a loser whose kid hates him.

Just one? He has 12 of them. Because he thinks the world is under-populated. I wish I was making that up.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So.... modern day Specter

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Compared to the other Uber wealthy, he at least seems to have some sort of a code of ethics from what i can see, which is obviously limited. He's still in it to make money (obviously), but his actions seem to suggest that he won't go to the extreme of hurting everyone else just for money.

I started liking Mark more when he opened cost plus drugs. It's a pretty decent endeavor to try to reduce pharmaceutical costs for the consumer

[–] frezik@midwest.social 32 points 3 months ago

Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 3 months ago

Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

General rule of thumb is that if you posted a comment, even if Lemmy tries to tell you it failed it probably went through so don't try and recomment

[–] cor315@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

I don't. My instance seems to do this on its own for some reason.

[–] frezik@midwest.social -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

He isn't the most conservative of billionaires, but hell yes he's a greeeeedy fuck face.

Has helped folks a bit tho. And profited

[–] Modva@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's any value to considering the point he makes on its own merits.

And billionaires are also bad.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That was the part before the “but”…

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People who think a business making profit is by definition unethical aren't to be trusted to define ethics.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Businesses can't make a profit without exploiting their workers. That's how capitalism works.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Businesses can’t make a profit without exploiting their workers.

Literally false, even using your absurd definition of "exploit". If workers were an overall source of profit, businesses would never downsize--by your logic, since every worker creates more value than they're getting paid, laying anyone off would be equivalent to throwing money down the toilet.

But in the real world, downsizing happens all the time. And in the real world, labor is a cost, not a source of profit.

You can really tell when someone has no experience running a business. I'd love to see you try to open and run a small restaurant for longer than a year with this mindset, lmao.