All billionaires are bastards. Full stop. It doesn’t fucking matter if they got there through marriage. It doesn’t fucking matter if they donate to charity and seem like nice people. Nothing they can do can excuse the evil done by them or on their behalf to become that wealthy in the first place. You can tell they’re cool with it because they never seem to stop being billionaires of their own free will.
There are a tiny proportion of relatively decent ones, such as Mackenzie Scott (Bezos’ ex-wife), so I would only ask that such a hunt not be completely indiscriminate.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Keeping such a black & white view of things makes you no better than MAGAts, IMHO. There’s nuance to everything, and if you can’t be bothered to consider it then YOU are making yourself part of the problem.
If you bothered to look into things & think them through, you’d see she’s using her wealth to generate even more money she can donate to good causes. If she just gave away everything she got out of the marriage right away, she’d be approaching the bottom of her barrel right about now instead of having much more to contribute to good causes as she now does.
Step back from the anger, and get a bigger view of things, eh?
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
She’s unelected, and dictates the disbursement of a great deal of unearned funds.
Big picture, no nuance needed: it’s feudalist to let her make these decisions.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Grow TF up & get with reality, dude. She’s working within a system she didn’t create. When you effect a complete overhaul of how the country works, we’ll talk. Until then, she’s doing much more good than most - certainly more than the bullshit your unrealistic excuses to be judgemental are.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ah I see so she not only gets to continue to benefit personally from the unearned wealth she’s hoarding, but also gets to commit further exploitation to steal yet more wealth from the working class and redistribute it unilaterally however she sees fit, just because she gives some of it to charity. Are you not aware that most if not all of the charities rich people donate to are really just a tax dodge, and the charity itself only serves to promote the political interests of the billionaires that fund them? I guess not because you can see the nuance in being an evil wealth hoarding dragon but not in “donating” to “charity”. Educate yourself first before you try to educate others chucklefuck. You’ll look like less of a naive dipshit.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Whatever you say. I’m not the one blindly hating an entire class of people without treating each on as an individual, much like any other bigot. Your blind hatred is demonstrated by the fact you act like giving away a third of her net worth - even after accounting for her gains - is just a “tax dodge.”
I get the anger and share it to an extent, but not to the point of blind rage that makes one no better than any other bigot.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sell that BS to more ignorant people!!!!
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Still married Bezos. Still has billions of dollars to her name. Still owns part of Amazon. There is no such thing as a decent billionaire.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Keeping such a black & white view of things makes you no better than MAGAts, IMHO. There’s nuance to everything, and if you can’t be bothered to consider it then YOU are making yourself part of the problem.
If you bothered to look into things & think them through, you’d see she’s using her wealth to generate even more money she can donate to good causes. If she just gave away everything she got out of the marriage right away, she’d be approaching the bottom of her barrel right about now instead of having much more to contribute to good causes as she now does.
Step back from the anger, and get a bigger view of things, eh?
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Uh, copypasta? Trolling?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
You’d know trolling. I was in a rush & couldn’t remember how to refer to a second person in s response at that moment. Deal with it. Or don’t, I don’t GAF.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Get Woked more, there are none. They have all these resources that poor-extremely (disgustingly, no one ever wants to live like, but when forced to will) poor people will never have, not just in poor countries, but in The 1st World’s wealthiest countries. And those people do not care enough to reduce their wealths/resources, hidden from taxes in USA & Etc. banking, to devote to truly making a difference in those poor-extremely (disgustingly, no one ever wants to live like, but when forced to will) poor people‘s lives & generations after them.
Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They can give their money away if they really are decent. Like she is doing. A notice of the start of hunting season should be all they would need to move themselves out of that class.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Make it a Top Ten Hunt. The list would be fluid as they either dispose of assets or get eliminated. Spoils go to the charity of those most in need.
huppakee@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If the killer keeps the money they take the ‘vacant’ place in the list, in the end the person most willing to use violence and most capable to buy protection end up with most money. Might not really be a meaningful difference to what we have now lol
Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They can’t keep but, they can choose what charity it goes to.
“This is Samantha, and she’s hunting for Toys For Tots. Good luck Samantha!”