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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What even is the fucking point of making more money when you already have more money than you could conceivably spend in multiple lifetimes?

I truly do not understand that level of greed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you think of it as a particularly dangerous symptom of mental illness it makes a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Exactly they are hoarders. It just money they hoard. I remember stories of Sam Walton. Had billions and yet wore old clothes and drove old truck. He still would stop pick up pennies on the street and check payphone for change. It's fucking disorder. Warren Buffet lives in old house. They get upset these kind of men who will throw a fit if they can't save a penny on something. It's no longer about the money just hoard to hoard. And they are so far above us that they can't even convince how we struggle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

One of the small blessings of social media has been more billionaires putting their unfiltered thoughts out there for everyone to see. It's become very obvious that they have no special skills or intelligence. If anything it's just a lack of imagination that allows them to indulge their fixation on collecting shiny things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

The reason they often punch down on trans people is to run cover for their own mental illness. If they can convince chuds that someone’s outward appearance is a major symptom of something wrong, they’ll never look deeper. They’ll never see Trump’s narcissism, they’ll never see Elon or Bezos or Zuck’s soulless sociopathy, because they see them wearing suits and being in charge.

The fucking muppets always take the easy bait

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’re all just perpetually trying to beat the Donkey Kong high score. It’s a game of ego.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

1000%, its how they establish pecking order amongst themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

They laugh with him now cause he hasn't asked for his tithe yet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Huh. I wonder from where they both harvested that $3.4B.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Don't you see it? The 4D chess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what the marbling is like on ol' Chuck there. Kobe levels, ya think?

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

It's fatty* meat, billionaires have never worked a day in their life. They don't even drive themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dude, that's what makes Waygu and Kobe beef the way it is. They don't let the cows range and massage them on a schedule to keep them fatty.

lean meat is an elite athlete, these chubby fucks probably have wonderful marbling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yes I meant to say fatty meat