cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23222473
this just shows how much the game has no basis in merit or reality.
Makes me want to bring it all back to tribes and shitting in the woods. We can play the nobody gets shit if we dont game too.
All three of them aren’t worth much, truth be told.
Yep. If all 3 of them died in a freak submarine accident tomorrow, nothing would change in the world.
I was hoping that billionaires dying in submarine accidents was going to become a trend.
Elon Musk is now worth more than the 2nd richest greediest man (Jeff Bezos) and the third richest greediest man (Mark Zuckerberg) combined!
Imagine every single minion stopping to work for him. Even the bankers. He’d be stranded and helpless. No family member (if there still are any) would help him for free.
What will it be once he gets his hands on the government? He is poised to line his pockets at an unbelievable scale.
Can we please stop calling someone “being worth” x amount of money? It’s disgusting on a fundamental level.
Okay lets brainstorm, they are all parasites on society, they are not more worthy than anyone else, but “king” has a sort of good vibe to it for many people so…
Something along Robber Baron? But again, baron is kind of cool.
Gangster? Too cool.
Oligarch is for russians right?
Child prince, too demeaning.
Hyper burglar, too complicated.
Thief sounds good IMO but they steal so much, and in history we’ve always been facinated with oeople being able to do that (kings, dragons, and actual thiefs).
Bureaucratic parasites? Because they steal the work by shuffling the papers. Also doesn’t sound “cool”.
Accountant or clerk seems to be what they actually are, cooking the book on the whole society.
Elon Musk: super clerc.
Zuccenberg: society accountant.
Bill Gates: fraudulent clerc.
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i was thinking about this the other day. i know the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is disputed but i think there must be something to linguistic relativism. like, in english words describing wealth are all tied to “worthiness”, and we talk about being wealthy as being more good.
in my language words describing wealth are all tied to effort: the ability and/or will to do something is “förmåga”, and if someone is wealthy they are “förmögen”, which i’m not entirely sure of the conjugation for but intuitively i read it as “has expended effort”. this is a more neutral term, and our class divide has historically been much shallower than the anglophone world. of course this is mostly due to different social systems but… why were they put in place ho begin with?