God I wish billionaires restricted themselves to “not helping anyone”. It seems that our actual billionaires are actively trying to destroy everyone’s lives through abuse of monopoly power, election influence, running interference against climate change laws, straight up regular crime, and so on.
If billionaires limited themselves to only being fabulously wealthy and living in exorbitant luxury, they’d never be billionaires
…because you only really need to have 100 million dollars or something like that at most for life-long disgusting levels of luxury, anything more is just showing off
In fact, I’d even argue that 10 million usd is more than enough for living a stress-free luxurious life without needing to work a single more day in your life
If I try to imagine my life where I had $100 million and the best thing I could find to do with my time— given that just about everything would be within my budget — was to work long hours and try to raise thar number… it just seems sad.
That’s the exact kind of go-getter a lot of society has told me is the person I should want to be too. Gross.
Your first mistake is thinking that you got the first $100mil by “working hard”.
You don’t get $100 mil by working hard. You get there by being born to the right family or by exploiting the labor of others. Usually both. Very, very rarely, it could be just pure dumb luck. But never just by working hard.
God I wish billionaires restricted themselves to “not helping anyone”. It seems that our actual billionaires are actively trying to destroy everyone’s lives through abuse of monopoly power, election influence, running interference against climate change laws, straight up regular crime, and so on.
If billionaires limited themselves to only being fabulously wealthy and living in exorbitant luxury, they’d never be billionaires
…because you only really need to have 100 million dollars or something like that at most for life-long disgusting levels of luxury, anything more is just showing off
In fact, I’d even argue that 10 million usd is more than enough for living a stress-free luxurious life without needing to work a single more day in your life
If I try to imagine my life where I had $100 million and the best thing I could find to do with my time— given that just about everything would be within my budget — was to work long hours and try to raise thar number… it just seems sad.
That’s the exact kind of go-getter a lot of society has told me is the person I should want to be too. Gross.
Your first mistake is thinking that you got the first $100mil by “working hard”.
You don’t get $100 mil by working hard. You get there by being born to the right family or by exploiting the labor of others. Usually both. Very, very rarely, it could be just pure dumb luck. But never just by working hard.
100 mill is chump change anymore. USD might as well be pesos the way the tax and spend GOP handles things.
100 mil buys a very medicore doomsday bunker. 500 mil in 2024 is the new 100 mil from 2018.