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As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This so angers me

The richest person in the world, who single handedly could do something like end world hunger if he wanted to

The richest person in the world, who got there by exclusively lying his ass off about literally everything

The richest man in the world who went now full Nazi

The richest man in the world now buuwuuu complains that his life is so hard.

I hope you get a fucking paper cut on your dick head.

I can't wait for your kind to die out and disappear. We need to rid the world of millionaires. Wealth caps, now!

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think he's trying to iritate people on purpose with this. I wish people would just stop using his products all together. Then we could stop talking about him entirely.