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ivanafterall , (edited )
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Really happy for both of these fine gentlemen. You just can't help but love these two knuckleheads.

Edit: My attempt to be more-optimistic about the news isn't catching on.

andshit ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_EeCkHs-e0

phoneymouse ,

Not sure what keeps these people going. I’d be retired if I hit a billion.

ry_ ,

I doubt they do a great deal tbh

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Damn I’d be retired as soon as the 4% FIRE rule is met.

ours ,

For them, it’s not about having enough money. It’s about chasing power.

They are sick people.

BestBouclettes ,

It’s NOt ReAl MonEY THey HAvE In tHeiR BaNK acCouNTs. Or something like that. Also, monkey brain likes numbers going up.

BothsidesistFraud ,

A lot of these net worth increases are from the rising value of companies whose shares they own a lot of (e.g. Amazon in Bezos’s case)

Many people aren’t interested in a life of leisure. They want to create, achieve, and strive. In the same way that someone may want to spend more time creating art, people like Bezos and Musk want to spend more time creating companies that build and make things. Both of them spend a lot of their time on passion projects having to do with space travel, for example.

So the question is: okay, you make your billion and you retire. What then? Lie around and watch TV and stuff? A lot of people are not interested in that.

CoggyMcFee ,

The part about continuing to make stuff I understand, the fact that they continue to harm others in order to squeeze every last drop of additional money out of everything is the part I’ll never understand

RememberTheApollo_ ,

This really is the crux of it. When you try to manipulate government to avoid taxes. When you prevent unionization. Abuse workers for profit. There’s no shortage of negative behaviors and actions by the Uber-wealthy like Musk and Bezos that don’t have anything to do with being creative but definitely point towards them being greedy and controlling assholes.

Its also unfortunate that the comment you responded to takes the “well they’re not really rich” with the “it’s their investments that went up, they didn’t make any money” soft apologist stance when it comes to the Uber-wealthy. Those investments are as good as cash in the bank, they’re leveraged for low interest loans that help dodge taxes. Those loans are cash in the pocket.

yoz ,

Lol same and i always wondered the same. Bunch of fucking weirdos tbh. The only people who will hangout with them are there for their money.

Akasazh ,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Most likely the mindset that ensures you won’t hit a billion.

Miaou ,

I thought the secret was to be a son of an imperialist slaver, guess I just need to pull myself up by the bootstraps

root_beer ,

Hoarding, addiction, that sort of thing

I’d get rid of it if I hit a billion, I don’t want to gaze into abysses

ToastedPlanet ,

Hopefully this means I won’t have to hear about Elon Musk in the news.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

I hope you are right, sadly there’s an equal chance that the man baby will generate even more news.

mPony ,

Most of the time Musky was in the news you didn’t hear a thing about Jeffrey.

and anytime OrangeJerk is in the news you are *not *hearing about some other person doing evil.

Senseless ,

Potato, po-tah-to

hydrospanner ,

Meet the new boss!

Same as the old boss!

Bubs12 ,

Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffett Amateurs can fucking suck it Fuck their wives, drink their blood Come on, Jeff, get 'em

Langehund ,

sick keyboard soloAAAAHH—

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

So stack Bezos ontop of Musk when we’re going for our guillotine day two-fer.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I’m not into capital punishment but I’m 100% ok with this.

ItsAFake ,

https://media3.giphy.com/media/4tLJ2AMJPp4Ws/200w.gif

PrincessLeiasCat ,

They’re both insufferable.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Second richest, that’s terrible 🙄

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

After clicking OP’s body link I now know that the CEO that sits over Hennessy is the 3rd richest man in the world and has more money than Mark Zuckerberg. Weird.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, it’s a whole lot more than Hennessey, but yeah.

ours ,

It’s a conglomerate with many of the really big French luxury brands: LVMH. The LV is for Louis Vuitton, the M for Moët, and finally H for Hennessy. And they have many other $$$ brands under their umbrella.

DeepThought42 ,

I wish the media wasn’t so focused on stuff like this. It’s only feeding their egos and driving them to even further to out compete each other in the worlds biggest a-hole contest.

bashbeerbash ,

but rich people literally live for the biggest a-hole contest

Mongostein ,

You’re right. Post downvoted. I don’t care.

tsonfeir ,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

We click it. We allow it to be shared. We comment on it.

Ask mods to ban billionaire posts.

Miaou ,

For every musk or bezos there are a hundred billionaires whom we’ve never heard of and who are just as greedy. I don’t think it necessarily changes much

BobaFuttbucker ,

The cost of living keeps going up and corporations are buying all the housing out from under individual buyers but yes Bloomberg this is more important news.

morphballganon ,

Didn’t that happen years ago?

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

For the record it’s extremely unlikely that either are in fact the world’s richest.

Just the richest people dumb enough to talk about it.

AttackPanda ,

Yeah I always think that we know their wealth because it is in shares of publicly traded companies but you know it’s some Saudi oil baron or Russian Oligarch that is actually wealthier. My guess is probably Putin takes top spot and then the Saudis.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Most rich fucks use LLCs to hide their ownership of assets. (At least, from the public.)

If they’re privately owned, then there’s little functional difference, but you can use them to avoid reporting requirements (ie in a hostile take over.)

But then, also, there’s a lot of random LLCs on a random company’s ledger. Some of them are investment firms, and such, but some are also the assets of people like bezos or the Rothschild family.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Then there are leaders who essentially own everything in their country. Even if it is supposedly private property, it can be taken away at any time, meaning that it is really the leader’s property- Saudi Arabia, Brunei, North Korea…

spaduf ,

Russian Oligarch that is actually wealthier

Putin himself has always been a strong contender

bashbeerbash ,

Saudis state oil factory is worth over a Trillion and all their wealth is sanction free.

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