the_dunk_tank

Without him, electric cars wouldn't be the almost-mainstream thing they are today.

Biggest EV manufacturer is still BYD

Get a load of this bootlicker:

Can we as a society organize and innovate without billionaires? Even China changed their economy to make them possible.

Right now, writers are on strike. Hollywood workers could invest their time, make movies, and get paid afterwards. But instead, it takes people with money to do the funding.

How should big sums of money be managed? Bureaucrats work to a certain extend but hardly innovate. Which structure could ask a million people to invest a thousand dollars each and offer ethical profits?

Mark Cuban is a bit of a wall street asshole, but he’s created a drug company to slash the prices of generic drugs for Americans

I could use my billions to buy legislators to enact Medicare for All, but then I wouldn't profit, so why?

Didn't one of the Koch brothers die? That was pretty cool.

I remember almost drooling when I saw the SpaceX "renewable rocket" launch so many years ago

it turns out it just landed back on earth it can't be reused it needs to be repaired basically from scratch again anyway

:'D

This is such a ridiculous question. Everyone has done one good thing in their life.

Is Scrooge McDuck alright or does he get the wall too?

I love being St Paul in the 1st century AD. I sure hope no one will take my letters to specific groups in Asia Minor and Europe as truths to be applied for the entire world

has posted some of the funniest tweets in history. The fact he's only a billionaire because he says he is makes it even better.

Did anyone mention the one exploding in a submarine?

Zuckerberg will have done something good when they finally let him kill Elon with his bare hands in the ring

Sam Bankman Fried, he is in jail.

They're all wrong

Why not have the question - what's something a billionaire has done to justify their wealth? The answer is nothing, of course, because there's no justification for being a billionaire.

"People Of Lemmy" aka Turbo-Redditors.

Tony Stark saved the world from Fascism

"Some billionaires did a great thing once, so they are not bad."

This is the capitalist framing of saying "I am not racist, I have a black friend."

Name me one billionaire that has provided a net good that has outweighed their net bad. You can't do it. It is fundamentally why they are billionaires in the first place because they exploited and stole from everyone else. They are not a necessary component to society, they are an eventuality of capitalism and at their very best, an inefficiency.

The ongoing copium of living inside this failing system is not only to justify them, but say they are going to save us. These people just need to admit they want a king with devine right because they don't believe any other system can work.

For sure! I wanted to make sure someone chimed in on this. I forwarded it to an elderly hospital roommate who was extremely appreciative.

That was easy though: Thomas H. Lee. He put a bullet in his own head.