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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You cannot become a billionaire without being a scummy person.

[–] starlinguk@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Zana@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying it’s easy to become scummy?

It's always been easy for people to be scummy. It just happens to also be easy to be a CEO of a company that does nothing.

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Rowling became a billionaire

Google says her net worth is £820 million. Not a billoonarrr.

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too harsh? Can you name one that isn't?

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] NewDark@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You could exploit other billionaires, but that seems like the one thing you can go to jail for.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

A horde would come after their hoard of riches

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.