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Who could have forseen the woes of capitalism? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 247 points 7 months ago (66 children)

Warren Buffett is like Bill Gates. He's an evil billionaire (all billionaires are evil) who keeps pretending to be a good guy so people won't despise him.

Nobody earns a billion dollars, we've decided as a society that even global leaders, scientists and life saving doctors who do the most important work don't earn that much. It's impossible for a human to be valuable enough to earn a billion dollars. Therefore every billionaire is where he is, because he stole the wealth of the people below him who did the actual work. Every billionaire is a wage thief.

[+] [email protected] -47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user? I’d consider that important work.

And why is it just billionaires? What about people worth tens of millions? Shouldn’t we also talk about them? Steve Wozniak is estimated to be worth around 140 million. Is he also evil?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user?

By literally stealing DR DOS, swapping the drive letters for the hard drive and floppy disk, and rebranding as MS DOS

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also mustve been nice to have a mom on the board of IBM to help get a massive deal for his startup.....

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influenced-the-success-of-microsoft.html

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

It's always some "started on 3rd base" bullshit with these "self made" billionaires...

Even with "common" people I see this shit and it kills me. I was watching some bullshit "I did x and so can you!" video and this fucker goes on to explain how he had company backing, previous experience, consultants to sit with, and a previous degree...

Yeah guy, I can totally just do that too...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user? I’d consider that important work.

No, he built a monopoly on top of a stolen product

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I might add a monopoly so bad and so illegal that even America at its most fascist was like "yeah, too far dumbass"

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