Always remember that a billionaire didn't become billionaire by chance: they got there by trampling over other people and lying on their tax return forms. Nobody with a sense of decency becomes obsenely rich because decent people don't do these things.
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What about a dead billionaire?
If someone shot musk or zuckerberg dead I'd be like "That's good. That's an improvement."
The only good bug's a dead bug.
Is this ever an ironic allusion, because the starship troopers were the fascists, who would have fought for the billionaires.
Occasionally Warren Buffet will say something that resembles what a normal human would think but then Berkshire Hathaway comes in a cleans out fire victims in shock.
The my space guy really shows this. Anyone with any sanity would stop around a 100 mil or so and just go enjoy their life. Heck a large amount would do so at 10 and for folks who could live frugally if they have lots of life left 1 mil would do.
George Soros?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
"As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion,[9][10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations,[11] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune."