Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business

Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or, a bunch of people who are over the inequality in our world regardless of how the person comes by the money.

  I don’t care if Microsoft pays him a salary or not, hoarding that much wealth is a mental illness that can only be cured by a guillotine

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  • escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    is a mental illness that can only be cured by a guillotine

    Do you prescribe this medicine to all mental illness?

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    • Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, just the specific hoarding of more wealth than you could ever possibly spend.

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• tastysnacks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Billionaires don’t want to work anymore.

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• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Somebody should’ve just told Marx about the difference between salary and capital ownership!

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stocks shouldn’t exist. Fight me.

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  • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No need, they exist and you’ve already lost…

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rape already exists. Based on your reasoning here, anyone who says rape shouldn’t exist ‘already lost.’ So I guess we should get rid of those anti-rape laws, right?

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  • Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seriously, they should be taxed when stockpiled and sitting idle. 1% per stock, per current price, per quarter.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So you’re saying he’ll be making a billion dollars a year for doing nothing?

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• TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Income is income, and billionaires already have too much of it. Not everyone enjoys taking it rough from corporate America.

  The only people who should have stake in a company are those who work there.

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  • Djtecha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait… But then the stock would be virtually worthless…

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• aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And?

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t that the “doing nothing” part of the title?

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• Bleach7297@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The stock market is perverse.

  It is supposed to be a tool that allows people to support promising ventures that they believe in, and allows them to profit from the venture if it is successful.

  Instead it’s a race to the bottom, where companies have a feduciary duty to their investors to make them as much profit as possible, a process ultimately known as enshittification.

  Adam Smith was a smart guy, but he never saw Milton Friedman coming.

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