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Yes, most Russian oligarch billionaires got their wealth purely through acute business acumen...
by joosters 13y ago
Yes, most Russian oligarch billionaires got their wealth purely through acute business acumen...
- mtrimpe 13y agoWell; they are known for their impeccable execution(s) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...)
- mtrimpe 13y agoBy the way; this isn't snark towards Russia but snark against the notion that the threat of violence doesn't play a significant part in the distribution of wealth anymore.
- Sharlin 13y agoI think the problem with the concept of having "acute business acumen" is that it is basically orthogonal to moral concerns, but there seem to be plenty of people who consider making money using one's business smarts morally good an sich, no matter how ruthless and unethical the means. King Leopold II can certainly be said to have had "acute business acumen"...
- jgalt212 13y agotrue that. Spending few minutes Googling "aluminum wars." The results are downright scary.
- epsylon 13y agoAnd so did Paris Hilton.
- breischl 13y agoMuch as I personally dislike Paris Hilton and the related series of celebrities (the Kardashians come to mind), I have to respect the business acumen. A lot of people have made sex tapes, some of them professionally, but very few have made that much money from it. Partially that's because they were rich already, and maybe they just had a good manager/marketer/whatever, but they still managed to make a lot of money from something that is not typically well compensated.