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You don't get that rich in the first place without being a ruthless asshole.
by Lammy 8mo ago
You don't get that rich in the first place without being a ruthless asshole.
- markus_zhang 8mo agoThis. And this also explains why sometimes girls fell love to apparent assholes -- if you are an asshole it doesn't mean you are powerful, however if you are not an asshole then definitely you are not powerful.
- wewewedxfgdf 8mo agoProof please, not a slogan. Like, actual facts.
- jcranmer 8mo agoI mean, do you have a counterexample? FWIW, Bill Gates is one of the people I would have pointed to as one of the less disreputable modern billionaires, and finding out that Melinda divorced him over his Epstein connections really soured my opinion of him.
- dnautics 8mo agojohn mackey, Definitely a bit ruthless but pretty good at maintaining integrity, only a little bit of an internet troll.
- n4r9 8mo agoIs this the same John Mackey that fired his own father from the board and criticises younger generations for trying to find meaningful work? I think OP has a point, it's very difficult to accumulate vast wealth without behaving ruthlessly and being kind of an asshole when it comes to making tough profit-over-people decisions.
- wudu 8mo agoWarren Buffett
- n4r9 8mo agoAlmost exclusively invests in companies with anti-competitive (i.e. bad for consumers/society) behaviours.
- vee-kay 8mo ago[flagged]
- Lammy 8mo agoI should know better than to feed the troll, but… - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact#iiib:~:text=satisfaction%20of%20consumers.-,Microsoft%27s%20Pricing%20Behavior,-62.%20%C2%A0Microsoft%27s%20actual https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact#iiib:~:text=V.-,MICROSOFT%27S%20RESPONSE%20TO%20THE%20BROWSER%20THREAT,-Microsoft%27s%20Attempt%20to https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact#iiib:~:text=for%20a%20time.-,The%20Similar%20Experiences%20of%20Other%20Firms%20in%20Dealing%20with%20Microsoft,-93.%20%C2%A0Other%20firms https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact#iiib:~:text=who%20preferred%20Navigator.-,Giving%20Internet%20Explorer%20Away%20and%20Rewarding%20Firms%20that%20Helped%20Build%20Its%20Usage%20Share,-136.%20In%20addition https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact#iiib:~:text=on%20the%20desktop.%22-,Excluding%20Navigator%20from%20Important%20Distribution%20Channels,-143.%20%C2%A0Decision%2Dmakers https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... - https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/ https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/ - http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ One would have had to try very hard to avoid ever hearing about Microsoft's behavior in the '90s.
- spiderice 8mo agoThese are anecdotes. Proving that Bill Gates is an asshole doesn't automatically mean every rich person is an asshole.
- hgomersall 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- conception 8mo agoWhat an insane take. Are you not familiar with Bill Gates and like his entire business history? Sure he’s old and donates half of his hundred billion dollars to have half another billion dollars white wash his legacy that doesn’t mean he’s not a terrible person just because his charity has a great PR team.
- monero-xmr 8mo agohttps://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE