• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros. I had a period where I appreciated people who played the system to get rich. Before I understood the system itself is the problem.

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      22 minutes ago

      Bill Gates

      I remember him as being a scumbag going back to the 80’s. Ripping off the Mac GUI, and then going on to bully, absorb and run out of business countless smaller enterprises through strong-arm legal / financial tactics.

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      59 minutes ago

      i never saw them as rolemodels, its not really somehting that ever connected with me at all, with gates he always seem too snobby and gave off a faek vibe, now we know why.

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      What I find most interesting is that Warren Buffet has come right and said it’s weird that society will reward people into being billionaires and has publicly stated that there’s is for sure a class war going on and billionaires are winning.

      I think it’s nice he’s giving most of his fortune away but disappointing he hasn’t called for the system that made his fortune to be dismantled.

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        58 minutes ago

        because he benefited from that system that gave billionaires that advantage, of courses hes not go to bite the hand that feeds him.

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      5 hours ago

      Damn this was so sad. What kind of a bummer must your childhood have been if Warren Buffett was your hero?

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      16 hours ago

      Yeah because, if the system worked as it ideally should and wasn’t corrupt, none of those men would’ve been where they are today. They’d be down on earth with the rest of us, equally.