the united healthcare thing reminded me of this old gem

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I like the cut of your jib, sailor.

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Sadly the employees were also amongst the victims, just doing their job

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Even then they would only become rich from the idea by skimming wages off of the people actually implementing and distributing it.

Nevermind all of the support that goes into a discovery like that. Like look at all the work that went into recent miracle discovery the mRNA vaccine.

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That is a valid argument

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I agree, there are no good billionaires. The moment they donate all their billions they are good but they are no billionaires anymore. "good" and "billionaire" are mutually exclusive.

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Employees? The mini sub only had one "employee", who was the owner of the company, not a billionaire afaik, but billionaire enabling.

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He was probably thinking about the ship Titanic

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Yeah, I do feel bad for the son, he was just 19

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I have no idea how you could explain Boeing's failures other than C-suite greed.

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I was talking about the Titanic.

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Until the day someone becomes a billionaire off of an idea to truly better humanity, like a cure for cancer, aids

If they were good then they would give it away and not become a billionaire

Torvalds is probably the closest example we have to revolutionary betterment today and he’s not a billionaire

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I've seen optimistic estimates that Linus makes ~$10 million per year from Red Hat stock. Even if that were true, it would take 100 years for him to be a billionaire. Can we focus on the actual billionaires before coming for him?

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Yeah, Torvalds is a great guy, i love that he hasn't become complacent and enshitified Linux

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No one was coming for him

I was using him as an example of a good person

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Sorry, misread that!

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Bill Gates has never been a “good” billionaire. Think of all the shady shit Microsoft did under his tenure to make his billions. Yeah, his foundation does good - but that’s all press image polishing to make you forget what he did before.

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... Old?

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18 months ago = fossil ?

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Apparently.