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>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?

by prvc 3y ago

Krutonium 3y ago
Basically, Right to Repair Lobbying, and giving grants to companies that align with that, as I understand.
defrost 3y ago
I believe he's recently started working for Eron Wolf under the FUTO banner. (but I might be wrong). This might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406
- dustypotato 3y ago
  Eron Wolf sounds like an Elon Musk parody
  - x3874 3y ago
    ...that would be Felon Muskrat then.
    - x3874 3y ago
      Or Enron Musk. :D Come on introverted, basement-tanned Muskies hiding behind your 500+ karma, gimme your curious and thoughtful downvotes! You are so funny!
ddalex 3y ago
Aren't we (almost) all working for billionaires ?
- anywhichway 3y ago
  No. Even if you work for a Fortune 500 company (which 80% of the workforce doesn't), your CEO likely isn't a billionaire unless they also founded the company. The vast majority of these companies aren't lead by the only 770 billionaires in the US. Even making 15 million a year (typical Fortune 500 CEO total compensation), it would take a long time to hit a billion.
  - bmitc 3y ago
    I was assuming the commenter was referring to how billionaires basically control everything through influence, government and regulatory capture, etc. So we're basically their little pawns and compute resources.
  - hcks 3y ago
    You’re not working for your CEO, or at least not for his CEO quality (but his shareholder one)
  - elaus 3y ago
    So this depends on your definition of "working for": Are you working for the CEO or for the owner of the company?
    - anywhichway 3y ago
      It still not even close to the majority of Americans no matter your definition. The vast majority of the stock market isn't held by billionaires either. The total net worth of all US billionaires is ~5 trillion and the stock market is worth ~40 trillion. Even if you start counting anyone that works for a company even partially owned by a billionaire, about half of us employees work for small businesses: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-statistics https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-stati...
      - croes 3y ago
        You are still working for them, just not 100%

>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?

by prvc 3y ago

>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?

Krutonium 3y ago

Basically, Right to Repair Lobbying, and giving grants to companies that align with that, as I understand.

defrost 3y ago

I believe he's recently started working for Eron Wolf under the FUTO banner. (but I might be wrong). This might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911406

dustypotato 3y ago
Eron Wolf sounds like an Elon Musk parody
- x3874 3y ago
  ...that would be Felon Muskrat then.
  - x3874 3y ago
    Or Enron Musk. :D Come on introverted, basement-tanned Muskies hiding behind your 500+ karma, gimme your curious and thoughtful downvotes! You are so funny!

ddalex 3y ago

Aren't we (almost) all working for billionaires ?

anywhichway 3y ago
No. Even if you work for a Fortune 500 company (which 80% of the workforce doesn't), your CEO likely isn't a billionaire unless they also founded the company. The vast majority of these companies aren't lead by the only 770 billionaires in the US. Even making 15 million a year (typical Fortune 500 CEO total compensation), it would take a long time to hit a billion.
- bmitc 3y ago
  I was assuming the commenter was referring to how billionaires basically control everything through influence, government and regulatory capture, etc. So we're basically their little pawns and compute resources.
- hcks 3y ago
  You’re not working for your CEO, or at least not for his CEO quality (but his shareholder one)
- elaus 3y ago
  So this depends on your definition of "working for": Are you working for the CEO or for the owner of the company?
  - anywhichway 3y ago
    It still not even close to the majority of Americans no matter your definition. The vast majority of the stock market isn't held by billionaires either. The total net worth of all US billionaires is ~5 trillion and the stock market is worth ~40 trillion. Even if you start counting anyone that works for a company even partially owned by a billionaire, about half of us employees work for small businesses: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-statistics https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/small-business-stati...
    - croes 3y ago
      You are still working for them, just not 100%