the united healthcare thing reminded me of this old gem

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Except for that one billionaire's son who was likely coerced into going with Dad and didn't fully understand the risks ... but otherwise, - yup -

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He's the only person I had any sympathy for, that was definitely his dad's idea.

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There's literally two astronauts stuck in space right now. They've been stuck there for months because Boeing's shit keeps breaking.

Not billionaires though.

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There are no good billionaires, all of them are scum. Yes, Bill Gates is included, regardless of all the donating he does. Until the day someone becomes a billionaire off of an idea to truly better humanity, like a cure for cancer, aids, etc. Actually useful technology, like a way to interface a camera with the brain to restore sight, or something like that. There will never be a good billionaire.

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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