Submitted 1 day ago by PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you?
Why would I be mad? This makes no sense to me. How close am I to this “cousin” in this hypothetical?
Also, there are only a few thousand billionaires in the world, even if not “famous” they are all probably on a list or “known” in some capacity - it’s hard not to be noted when you have the accumulated wealth hoard of a dragon.
there are only a few thousand billionaires in the world, even if not “famous”
Do you know what Knight Transportation is? Probably not, but it’s a trucking company worth $8 billion, and it is on the Fortune 500. Do you know who the CEO is? No, you don’t—and his net worth is not publicly disclosed. So even if they are online, unless you are really into corporations, CEO stocks, etc., I doubt you’d know.
When I worked at a country club, I saw many high-net-worth individuals of all races—Black, Hispanic, Asian—and I can tell you that you wouldn’t be able to pick them out in a lineup.
so … a CEO of a company that is valued in the billions of dollars - that CEO is not a billionaire, for context
The CEO is a millionaire, though - a quick search shows his compensation is over $4 million
I’m not saying every billionaire can be picked out in a lineup by a random member of the public, but just pointing out that no billionaire is escaping scrutiny or awareness of the public in some capacity (this is why I started with “even if not ‘famous’”).
Only if we talked often and he kept it secret…but even then I would be more bewildered than mad. Maybe I’d be mad if I found out and there was like, a homeless family member he didn’t help or something.
Are all your questions related to this book you’re writing?
Or are you just obsessed with rich people
No, I’d be mad he’s such a piece of shit and I would tell him to go die.
Being a billionaire is worse than being a murderer.
Being a billionaire usually involves murder in some indirect or direct way.
I would be more mad that she was a billionaire than I would be that they didn’t tell me.
Somebody would be getting a note demanding a reasonable ransom for my safe return in their Christmas card.
How would I react? I would be happy for their success and honestly a bit jealous.
Would I be mad? No…
I would fucking probably murder him.
He’s a sleazy bag that constantly bonds off of every single person he knows to the point where people abandon him over and over and over again due to his bummery. And to top it all off he sent nudes to my ex a few months before she died.
If I found out that on top of all of that he was a billionaire and could live a billionaire lifestyle and do whatever the hell he wanted to do and he went that far out of his way to make me miserable, I would just kill him.
I have a bunch of cousins that I have basically 0 relations with. I guess I wouldn’t be made because I haven’t told them shit about myself either.
I wouldn’t be mad at all, since I rarely talk to my cousins. But, I would be glad to hear they were doing well!
I mean DO have cousins whose aunt KEEPS BRAGGING ABOUT THEIR VACATIONS…
And when my fsmily was in NYC (like when ai was 8 - 12) they were busy so they left their kid (who’s named RAYMOND) with us, and he fucking started bullying me… fucking ABCs (American-Born Chinese) so arrogrant cuz they got birthright citizenship and spoke better
And recently, they just bragged about this Raymond apparantly “making millions of dollars from a bussiness trip abroad”.
I’m just like… cool good for you, lucky you got privilage.
They grew up with Wii and Nintendos
My other cousins, all those who were all born in the US, every one of then had a bunch of toys and video game consoles growing up… I never had an actual video game console growing up. My family is broke as hell.
So its just jealousy, envy… but still, I’m not gonna beg them for money, its a face thing.
Which is why my mom is so disappointed in me, we’re probably the “poorest” in my extended family…
One of the Aunts actually got my family to the US so I am thankful for that… (the mom of that Raymond kid, that kid who bullied me when my parents wete babysitting him, I say “babysitting” but he was a year older than me actually)
I mean I have no relationship with any of my cousins, they didn’t even wanna talk to be because I was “Fresh Off the Boat”… so we just kinda never really talked…
I don’t care about them… I’m more worried about whether or not I get my half of my parents stuff, those cousins are irrelevent to me, I mean good for them, they had more privilege than I ever did.
But then again, they probably had more pressure and expectations… so IDK if they actually have happier lives… I heard they were forced to do tutoring and stuff. Their dad is a college professor and I think their family own a lot of realestate and they have stocks and get news cars so often, like a new flagship phone every year… vacations every year…
And my paternal grandparents keeps asking money from their children… its always so awkward… my mom told dad to “make sure to give it when everyone else is in the room” so there are witnesses and they wont say their son (aka: my dad) was being “unfilial”…
You found it, you found the stupid question
lol, doesn’t that affirm they posted in the right sub? this is the community where we openly invite stupid questions - so we can’t complain, can we?
I mean, kinda… but we all know OP isnt what was intended.
No
If this was someone that I have regular contact with, I’d be kinda impressed that they managed to keep the secret. Though there’s degrees to richness - I wouldn’t be impressed of the secretkeeping if I already knew that they were some kind of rich manager type, just not that rich.
That said, fuck billionaires.
Why would it be my business?
Why would it matter?
Why would I care?
YOUR life & karma are YOUR life & karma.
Commit into Eternity, face the consequences ( as benJoseph said: “take up your cross”, aka face into one’s karma ), & endless-stream-of-universe’s “processing” of one’s continuum/soul will eventually release one’s continuum from entrapment/containment in ignosis/soul-ignorance.
For judging the nature of their actions ( re what they can vs can’t actually do ), that knowledge would be useful-framing, but otherwise, it’s irrelevant.
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Well this actually happened so I would say mildly surprised. He’s a distant cousin though so maybe it would have been a bigger surprise if it was a first cousin. He married an heiress.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This sub needs better moderation.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This place was always fated to become its subreddit namesake. Might as well change the name to asklemmy2 now before the transition is complete
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Sorry, but why? Are they breaking any rules?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
No, as a matter of fact, the subject of this particular post fits the sub exactly. It is a stupid question.
It is incredibly stupid. There is no real way to answer it, and any answer would be superficial because it is such a massive hypothetical that the answer itself does not actually matter.
Although, as stated above, it technically fits the sub, it violates the spirit of what this is supposed to be.