Billionaire chronicles

You do? :astonished:

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How else would I cross the street?

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What a racket. Wow:

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(Rebecca Solnit)

A few good billionaires among the saboteurs don’t justify the existence of the species. That’s why in Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, billionaires are eliminated as a climate hazard, their fortunes whittled down to $50m if they comply. Robinson writes: “There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth’s available resources were divided up equally among all 8 billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, and the scientific evidence very robustly supported that people living at adequacy, and confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier and happier than rich people.” On a thriving planet, human beings should be human scale, but the super-rich are on another scale altogether, giants trampling underfoot both nature and our efforts to protect it.

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At least there is some degree of schadenfreude in the knowledge that Nazi-lovin’ antisemite Coco Chanel’s business empire ended up under the control of a Jewish family.

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I wonder if your employees feel the same way?

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So much for the libertarian non-aggression principle!

(Not that I ever believed it, especially for people like Musk.)

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You think the god-king billionaires care about those proles! /s

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He’s just one little industrial accident away from needing a neurolink. They can just take one from a dead chimp and slap it in.

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ETA:
because I can’t post more than twice in a row, and because I heard this today (no transcript at the time I am writing to you now):

Dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit.

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