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Hermes billionaire to leave £5bn to former gardener (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

...creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn't earn that money. As is tradition.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

That guy earned it by gardening

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He worked and apparently someone valued his work plus presence plus...😉 For billions. He won it.

If you can get paid for your efforts, your product, and someone values it, then that's what it's worth.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol, no, no he didn't.

[-] HollandJim@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Technically he’s also removing himself in the process, so nil sum gain.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

Way to deliberately miss the point.. I said "creating" not "adding", it isn't about the number of billionaires, but how they become that.

[-] HollandJim@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And you missed my point - it’s migrating value, not creating new value. Anyway, being pedantic also misses the point - we should take up gardening. 👍

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