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A conservative billionaire had some things to say
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It all sounds well and good but I have a hard time swallowing any Billionaire advocating for ethics.
They're all pretty shitty, but Cuban is at least one of the less shitty ones. His work on reduced cost pharmaceuticals has been life-changing for some people, and is a really nice break from big pharma constantly trying to fuck you as hard as they can.
Yeah he's probably dying in the revolution, but towards the end. Assholes like Musk or Shkreli are far, far worse.
I'm staying neutral. I want to like him, but the last rich as fuck guy I thought was funny and was going to change the world for the better turned into one the biggest assholes on the planet.
Musk (assuming that's who you're referring to) was never funny. He was always a fucking loser with the level of humour of an edgy, dumb, tryhard teenager. Almost everything about him is a lie, he just managed to keep it under wraps while his PR machine painted him as a quirky genius.
Musk is a Supervillain. I knew that right from the start.
Nah super villains are cool and successful. Musk is somehow the world's richest man and still a loser whose kid hates him.
Just one? He has 12 of them. Because he thinks the world is under-populated. I wish I was making that up.
So.... modern day Specter
Oh, he's a villain alright, just not a super one
Compared to the other Uber wealthy, he at least seems to have some sort of a code of ethics from what i can see, which is obviously limited. He's still in it to make money (obviously), but his actions seem to suggest that he won't go to the extreme of hurting everyone else just for money.
I started liking Mark more when he opened cost plus drugs. It's a pretty decent endeavor to try to reduce pharmaceutical costs for the consumer
Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go
Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go
Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go
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Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go
I don't. My instance seems to do this on its own for some reason.
Mark seems like the best of the Sharks. This is a very low bar, but there you go
He isn't the most conservative of billionaires, but hell yes he's a greeeeedy fuck face.
Has helped folks a bit tho. And profited
I wonder if there's any value to considering the point he makes on its own merits.
And billionaires are also bad.
That was the part before the “but”…
People who think a business making profit is by definition unethical aren't to be trusted to define ethics.
Businesses can't make a profit without exploiting their workers. That's how capitalism works.
Literally false, even using your absurd definition of "exploit". If workers were an overall source of profit, businesses would never downsize--by your logic, since every worker creates more value than they're getting paid, laying anyone off would be equivalent to throwing money down the toilet.
But in the real world, downsizing happens all the time. And in the real world, labor is a cost, not a source of profit.
You can really tell when someone has no experience running a business. I'd love to see you try to open and run a small restaurant for longer than a year with this mindset, lmao.