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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Oktyabrskaya

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you pretending she gives away her cut?

"Oh no, I have to keep these billions of dollars while the majority of people can't imagine ever owning the place they live in!"

Fuck off, stop defending rich people, they exist at our expense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m not defending per se. I was trying to have a discussion on whether there are scales to these people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, there is. There's Elon who is worse than Taylor. Bezos, also worse. But there's more in common between swift and musk than between swift and her fans.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The answer is no, to become that rich you need to not care a single bit about the rest of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or conversely you have to place your own self worth so high that I would consider it a mental disorder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really. What about someone like Notch? Sold Minecraft for $2.5B and became an instant billionaire, no exploitation there.

Now he became an asshole after the fact, but there has to be some people who can become extremely wealthy without taking from others. Sure once you get there by luck and hard work then you should be giving back.

What about the guy that Elon had issue with on Twitter from Sweden who sold something to Twitter and become very wealthy but wanted to pay as much tax as possible etc and just be a nice dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unless someone in their situation gets the money and just redistributes it all directly to people in need or to charities right away to then only keep what's needed to make them middle class for the rest of their lives, they're just evil.

"He wanted to pay as much taxes as possible!"

Sure, and then he's still rich while others are struggling.