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Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/larry-ellison-donald-trump-paramount-skydance-merger.html

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can we please prohibit billionaires now?

    When your net worth reaches, say 10-20 million, your income taxes should go to 100%. That’s it, no more money for you until you get “poorer”

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I prefer a prestige mode. Once you hit one billion you get all your money and assets stripped away and you start from square one again. But you get a cool star by your name for every time you reset and start again.

      It’s mandatory.

      So your choices are start donating a lot of money when you’re at 900 million or to hold it of or enjoy the cool star by your name and lift yourself up by you’re bootstraps once more.

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      • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh man what if Instead i get like a cool skin for my social security card

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whatever works, but not a billion, that is already way way too much.

        In a society with proper taxing like this, nobody can spend a billion dollars, not even 100 million. Cap it at 10 or 20 million tops

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  • hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Larry sucks at being an 80–year–old billionaire. Just buy cool stuff and chill out.

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    • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Holy fuck, he’s 80?

      I guess I’m used to seeing old people who actually had to work for a living because he doesn’t look 80 to me at all. I hope he dies soon!

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      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        His hair is like when you see a lawn that is blatantly astroturf.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Going to outFoX Faux news

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who?

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    • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Founder of ORACLE (one rich asshole called Larry Ellison). They are make the most used commercial database software.

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    • BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You sound like an owl

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        When I was a little kid I wrote a short story about how an owl and a t-rex were best friends but then the dinosaurs died out. In the story that’s why owls only say “who” - they’re asking who killed their friend.

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Why thank you

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      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A !superbowl@lemmy.world

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