the united healthcare thing reminded me of this old gem

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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.

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The reason for Boeing's recent failures are actually well known: They purchased McDonnel Douglass and became defense contractors.

When they did that all of the McDonnel Douglass execs they acquired were able climb up the ranks of Boeing because they had political connections to get those DoD contracts. The story is the Boeing corporation acquired McDD but McDD execs acquired Boeing.

What happened next is Boeing started doing normal DoD contractor practices and outsource as much as possible to cut costs and open new non-union shops. The clusterfuck that is Boeing now is the outcome of that process.

Obviously you can still call this "c-suite greed" but that would be missing some important details.