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

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

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