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Please add something more substantive and less divisive than “hmmmmmmmm”. There’s so much interesting about this fellow’s life which can add some fascinating na
by runnerup 3y ago
Please add something more substantive and less divisive than “hmmmmmmmm”. There’s so much interesting about this fellow’s life which can add some fascinating narrative here, we can all avoid cheapening it with aggression and flame wars.
- wtfwhateven 3y agofixed
- runnerup 3y agoHonestly even as a person who believes that anyone with a billion dollars has effectively stolen it (captured more than their personal share) from the people and systems which enabled the value-creation of their enterprises… If I won a $1 million lottery (after taxes) I’d have no idea how to turn that into $100M. I’d probably spend 75% of it on a house, 10% of it to pay off other debts, and then be still solidly in the labor class. The guy obviously built an empire out of nothing, through both grift and grit. His first major win may have been ingratiating himself with the Haitian leadership, but how do you do this with nothing? I don’t admire it, but I recognize that it doesn’t just happen either. The guy didn’t really win with a lottery ticket, he did something to put the fix in at the lottery.
- wtfwhateven 3y agoI completely agree with you, regardless of how he kickstarted his empire it was effectively from nothing and a bit of charisma
- mortureb 3y ago[flagged]
- wtfwhateven 3y agoAhhhh, that explains it