• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

    Fuck off, cuban. youre one of them

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      The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

      How exactly did Cuban do that? All he did was be on the winning end of an incredibly bad transaction by Yahoo, and parlayed that into being on TV a lot.

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        Do you think he just magicked up an investment? He built a company bought by yahoo. How do you think he created the company broadcast up to that point? By himself? Or did he perhaps have employees who did the hard work?

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          Building the company isn’t what made him a billionaire. Yahoo grossly overpaying for it is what made him a billionaire.

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                None of those investors were employees. I know exactly how it works.

                Beyond a vague “any employees who had shares…” which, yeah, obviously. Which they would have had to purchase. Which anyone could do, regardless of being an employee

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            TLDR: NastyButtler fails to support their specious argument and Breadsmasher refutes each point reasonably. Argument won by the latter