• varoth
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    14511 months ago

    As all billionaires are. Along with unempathetic sociopathic psychopaths.

    • Kantiberl
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      11 months ago

      That may be the most tautological sentence I’ve ever read.

    • @AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
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      3411 months ago

      I can’t fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives…but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It’s a sickness.

      There are no good billionaires.

      • DominusOfMegadeus
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        1111 months ago

        I would build SO much low income, homeless, and transition housing. I would also start my own line of bamboo products and packaging to replace plastic.

        • @kklusz@lemmy.world
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          411 months ago

          The most important part of what you said is that you’d build “SO much” housing. If we’d just let the free market build all the housing it wants without letting NIMBYs get in the way, we’d have largely solved the housing crisis.

          • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
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            1411 months ago

            Except we already have more houses than there are homeless people. The problem is the empty houses have ridiculous price tags due to corporate landlords and landlords refusing the sell and only rent (also at ridiculous prices)

            • @kklusz@lemmy.world
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              311 months ago

              Vacancy rates in the places where people actually want to live are really low. Besides, are people not allowed to have vacation homes?

              Market price is a function of supply and demand. We’ve been under building housing for years.

              • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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                311 months ago

                Alright but life never promised anyone these luxuries. I don’t give a fuck if someone can’t have a vacation home because it means more people without one can have one. People act like freedom to do whatever the hell they want no matter how negatively it effects everyone else is their universal right. The Universe doesn’t give a fuck about your summer home, nature doesn’t give a fuck that you worked hard to get it. It will all be swallowed all the same if our main goal still is not perpetual survival. That may be authoritarian, but it is also the truth. We never left the game of survival we just plastered concrete and asphalt on top of it and pretended we were removed.

                • @kklusz@lemmy.world
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                  011 months ago

                  The Universe doesn’t give a fuck about your summer home, nature doesn’t give a fuck that you worked hard to get it.

                  Nor does the universe care about your sense of fairness or lack of understanding of econ 101. Keep restricting supply while demand increases, and watch what happens. Oh wait, we’ve already seen what happens, and yet we refuse to acknowledge it.

                  So be it. A population deserves the problems it gets.

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                    11 months ago

                    I never said supply wasn’t an issue. I said people are out here acting like they are owed luxury and that has never been true nor will it ever be. We all know zoning laws and supply restrictions for profit are what got us here. Do you think any of the lobbyists receiving money from these corps are gonna let it go? No.

                    Edit: and econ101 doesnt matter when the supply is kept artificially low through corporate welfare, consolidation, and lobbying.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      811 months ago

      Well yeah. If you weren’t sociopathic, you wouldn’t be holding onto all of your money, but would instead be trying to help people with it.

        • @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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          111 months ago

          Being a billionaire means using it to acquire more money which provides more power which provides more control. Shit floats to the top.