change it to billionaire and I agree, people with $1m are not obscenely wealthy these days
The difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is about a billion dollars.
It’s like a clicker game but with scrolling and depression. I’ve attempted to get all the way through it multiple times, but never succeeded.
Depression? I got bleak suicidal rage. Which is weird; it’s not even tuesday.
people with $1m are not obscenely wealthy these days
I’d rather have it than not.
In USA they’re not, but most of rest of the world that’d be
The real secret to becoming rich is to have parents who are rich.
Sometimes you have rich parents. Sometimes you have friends with rich parents. Sometimes you just find yourself at the center of a CIA money laundering operation.
So it was hard work after all, just not their own
He did say “they”
gestures broadly
Also my dad is a billionaire
“Do you know how hard it is to keep the plebs just happy enough that they don’t burn down my property?”
It is easy to get rich, as long as you have the moral compass of a cactus.
First I’d code some malware that specifically targets old people to try to scam them out of money. With that money I’d short out companies on the brink of going bankrupt and help by doing things that cost them money but aren’t technically illegal. With that money I’d start my own business selling crap bought from overseas, with students I can underpay, so I exploit both my customers and my workforce. Then with that money I’d bribe politicians to give me tax breaks.
There, now I am a multi millionaire.
Sad but true that some people’s need for success, money, and power allows them to rationalize their complete disregard for basic morality.
Henry Ford would’ve begged to differ.
Henry Ford still underpaid people for their labor. That is the fundamental key to capitalism. Profit is surplus labor that capitalists steal from laborers.
When it comes to new technologies, advancements, or discoveries, rarely is it the people who made them that get most of the profit made from them, the people that make the most are the ones that exploited them. It’s crazy that our best and brightest are more times than not indentured to our most greedy.
There needs to be laws and regulation to prevent and stop excessive greed and exploitation.
