• @Bubs12@lemm.ee
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    321 year ago

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

  • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    201 year ago

    Fuck them both, I think Elon is worse but at their level of terrible the difference amounts to a rounding error

    • Flying Squid
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      461 year ago

      Elon is only worse because Bezos doesn’t share every thought in his head with the world.

      • He built his business by scamming warehouses… They’re both dirt. Bezos just isn’t as insecure and doesn’t try to gloat where everyone can see his insanity.

        • @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          31 year ago

          And he doesn’t even need that part of Amazon at this point anyway, the real money is in AWS. American Alibaba The Amazon store site could disappear tomorrow and he probably wouldn’t even feel it.

        • Flying Squid
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          101 year ago

          I agree. In fact, because he doesn’t share his every thought, who knows what he believes? But Elon seems like he’s worse.

      • comador
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        31 year ago

        Jeff Bezos USED to, back when Twitter properly existed.

  • @Grogon@lemmy.world
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    Imagine losing to someone even though you are rich.

    If I had all that money I’d just have more than Jeff. Honestly this is a no brainer. I wouldnt want to be second richtet person. Either richest person or nothing at that point.

    Id just give away all the money and retire. Better thsn only being second

    • Xhieron
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      171 year ago

      I know, right? What even is the point. Congratulations, you’re the number one loser. Might as well just quit.

  • @DeepThought42@lemmy.world
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    1001 year ago

    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.

  • ivanafterall
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    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.

    • YⓄ乙
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      21 year ago

      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.

      • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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        31 year ago

        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@midwest.social
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      31 year ago

      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

    • @ours@lemmy.world
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      231 year ago

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

      They are sick people.

    • 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@lemmy.world
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        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_@lemmy.world
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          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.

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

  • @BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
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    231 year ago

    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.