• Javi
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    1313 days ago

    They’re no better than their Russian/American/Chinese billionaire equivalents; they just find themselves restricted by higher standards in Europe.

    Make no mistake, if it weren’t for the laws currently in place, European billionaires would be making the exact same moves those in America currently are.

    The saying “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” springs to mind. Who did they, or their families fuck over, in order to garner that sort of wealth?

    Anyone who was truly altruistic, and had that sort of money, would not retain their status of billionaire for very long.

    • @swlabr@awful.systems
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      1213 days ago

      The saying “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” springs to mind. Who did they, or their families fuck over, in order to garner that sort of wealth?

      There’s a running joke/working theory I’ve heard that in order to become billionaire, you have to have killed someone. (The reality is almost definitely worse)

      • @V0ldek@awful.systems
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        510 days ago

        The billionaire initiation ritual is that scene from Kingsman where

        spoiler for a 11yo movie I guess

        they ask him to kill his dog but instead of a dog it’s a literal child that was performing forced labour for the last year and just wants to go home to its parents, and the bullets are very much live