And yet you work for Bezos.
I know someone else said this too, but I really can't fault anyone for working for Amazon. It's a major employer and not everyone has a choice.
Don’t think they’re evil. Never met one but I’d guess they’re just normal people living in exceptional circumstances.
You mean they’re evil cos they don’t give their money away? How much should they give? How much should you give, when there are kids starving? I live a life of luxury whilst kids literally starve to death. So do you.
Not that I think any billionaires should exist. Ideally. But there.
TBH you might be thinking more of millionaires than billionaires. Millionaires can sometimes be people who have a lot of money on paper, usually due to their properties.
Billionaires are a different breed. A thousand times a million is still a thousand times a huge amount of money. If you bought a really nice council house in somewhere like Bethnal Green in the late 80s, stayed there raising your kids, kept working at your ordinary job, and paid into a low-risk pension fund, you could be "worth" a million, most of it in the home you live in and your pension fund. You'd have no money worries really.
But a billion is a thousand times that. They own their multiple homes outright, they have financial security, and everything else is just status. It's huge, enormous amounts of money. I don't know how much I'd give if I were suddenly to become a billionaire, but I'd definitely at least give enough to not be a billionaire.
I see the opposite to you. Cunts like the Duke of Westminster, he was just gifted it all. He may well do something with it, probably not. Anyone who 'earns' it, they do so not by doing well or getting lucky, they do it via pure, naked greed and massive exploitation of 1000's, normally 10's of 1000's of people.
I see both. Inherited billions are obscene, and very few people do anything worthy with it. They let other people do the obscene stuff.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the few who literally went from rags to riches, and yep, I agree, he fucked over a hell of a lot of people on his way there - it would be impossible otherwise.
Bill Gates started off upper class and got in at the right time with the skills he had. Maybe he's paying off past guilt with his foundation, but one of the reasons the alt-right hate him is because he retired early and used his money to help afflicted by a not very popular or newsworthy cause.
I expect some of them can walk about quite happily because no one knows who they are.
I've taught some kids of extremely rich people - private English lessons at a language college - and they sometimes led a weird life. It wasn't just getting in a car to go to school rather than the bus or tube, it was that you get in one car with your bodyguard, and two other bodyguards travel in cars in front and behind you. In Kensington, FFS. Took them longer to the school by car than on foot.
If their Mum wanted to come to the school, she travelled separately. Kidnapping was always a realistic prospect. A sensible kidnapper wouldn't try to grab a kid with just one bodyguard, but not all potential kidnappers are sensible.
I doubt any billionaire can really go out without someone just out of eyeshot keeping an eye out for them. Don't have much sympathy for the adults who choose it, but it's a really fucking odd way for a kid to grow up.
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