Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

• mcv@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are a few exceptions. JK Rowlings became a billionaire simply by writing some really popular books, and even stopped being a billionaire by giving much of her wealth away. As far as I can tell, she didn’t become an asshole until later.

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I bet she was always an asshole, she just hid it from the general public.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is literally no evidence of that other than tankie memes.

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  • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    nah. you need to be pretty fucking terrible to build a business where your share of it is worth a billion dollars. you do so by cheating your customers, employees, and competition. valve is no exception.

    there are plenty of companies out there that pay their employees decently, make good products, and compete fairly. those companies usually aren’t worth that much and their leaders aren’t making a billion dollars from it. you’re right that the tax policies are shit, but it’s not like you ever accidentally become a billionaire. you do so by cheating the tax system too and screwing the general public.

    and nobody said anything about killing people.

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• lucelu2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The billionaires today have an opportunity to eliminate world hunger yet they don’t. Instead, they fly rocketships, sail on giant yachts and buy island compounds or towns in Texas. So yeah, No one at that RB club is going to win a Nobel Peace Prize. They all suck.

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