• magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
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    4 months ago

    No they’re not, no billionaire is self made. They got they because they fucked people.

    You don’t make that much money unless you’ve fucked over a lot of people. That’s just not how capitalism works.

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      4 months ago

      It means they didn’t inherit their wealth. No more. No less. You’re fighting a semantics straw man.

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        No billionaires are self made, it’s a key thing to maintain awareness on. Each billionaire has started with an enormous starting advantage in some form. Either family connections or starting wealth. It’s not a straw man, it’s real, and the issue isn’t gender at all. It’s a distractive red herring from the fact billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place. Going down the rabbit hole of how men have a predilection for sociopathy, enabling them to be complete fuckwads with no care for humanity and only fucking others over is the semantic. Look at Bezos’ ex-wife and how she’s giving most of the money away, because the ethics may exist for women in general making the notion “being a billionaire” precluded from the majority of females.