Some are decent human beings that choose to use their money for the betterment of humankind.
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Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 days agoThey’re clearly not all on the same team. Some are decent human being that choose to use their money for the betterment of humankind.
It’s just that a couple, e.g. Musk, Thiel, David Sachs and others, decided to be huge assholes. They would end democracy any day to become richer and more powerful.
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Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I legitimately don’t know any of those good hearted oligarchs, who would you say they are ?
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Carnegie chose to do good things with his money, as did Gates and Boros. Now, it’s easy to criticize all three of them for an arbitrary number of bad things they are responsible for. Which is entirely beside my point:
There is obviously a scale of good and bad things oligarchs decide to do with their money. Musk, Thiel and Sachs are on the “huge asshole” end of that scale. And other oligarchs are not. Assuming Gates was as bad as Musk because somereason fails to see this and ultimately leads to letting the true assholes off the hook.
NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Gates was (and arguably still is) an enormous asshole and has only recently started spending money on “charity” and PR to improve his public image (similar to Carnegie). That you’re willing to let him off the hook for all of his past evils only shows that spending a tiny fraction of their I’ll-earned gains on PR will wipe their slate clean and people like you will let them off the hook.
If you let Gates, Carnegie, etc off the hook for their rotten past, expect future generations to let Musk et al. off the hook once they buy back their reputation when they get old.
Letme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Top ten Gates “evils”? Just curious 🍿