A Boring Dystopia

9006 readers

718 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

438

Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

114 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But giving someone at the bare minimum support from the state is apparently setting the wrong incentive. They say free money for doing nothing is communism and makes people lazy while giving a billinaire billlions for doing nothing is late capitalist doublespeak. I hope he suffocates on it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is free money in the way that it's a return on his investment. This has nothing to do with the state other than they will collect tax revenue on this distribution annually.

This should be a motivational post to get people investing. heck of a retirement payout this guy's getting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This should be a motivational post to get people investing.

Totally, because people who are struggling just love to take risks with their money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

What risk? Market goes up, the Rich ain't gonna let that stop so you may as well catch on the coat tails.

Past performance is not indicative of future earnings. Consult an investment professional or just send me your banking details. Same same.