• AquaTofana@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I mean, I kind of like the fact that he’s flexing paying his taxes to other billionaires, signaling that he’s better than them for doing so. It would be kind of nice if every billionaire started flexing on one another like this and started trying to one up one another to showcase “whose the better person” sort of thing. Pipe dream, I know, but a girl CAN dream after all.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        It’s a nice dream, but I prefer my dream of IRS agents blasting open a mansion door with C4 and arresting the billionaire who pays less tax than me. Oh and while civil asset forfeiture is a thing, they can do that too. Charge the mansion with a crime and turn it into affordable housing.

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      4 months ago

      I think one of the ways we can get this to happen more often is by celebrating these wins. That’s sorta a way to get good things to continue happening. It’s someone making the correct moral choice. Let’s support that while continuing to demonize the bullshit the other billionaires do.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t think frequency has any affect on morality of doing the bare fucking minimum.

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        4 months ago

        $275m is money he took from other people’s excess production.

        He didn’t make that money: he stole it and got lucky.

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          I buy my meds from his online store that he set up solely to compete with the absurd pricing of pharmaceuticals in the us. Saving a good bit too. He also made millionaires of most of the employees from his first successful business before he was a billionaire. I hate billionaires and he has surely done some fucked up things, but Mark Cuban does seem to be cut from a different cloth. I definitely appreciate his pharmacy.

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            4 months ago

            The thing is, there was only ever one good billionaire and he gave his money away to such a degree he was no longer a billionaire. While Mark Cuban has done good, surely even saved and improved many lives, he still has a billion more ways to do so. Plenty of good millionaires out in the world, there are no good billionaires.

            The mere concept of a billion anything is so hard to comprehend that it serves repeating.

            One million seconds is 12 days. One billion seconds is 32 years.

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        4 months ago

        You sound like you’d be happy to let Mark Cuban fuck your wife and that’s an embarrassing look bro.

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      4 months ago

      Guys! Someone did something minimally good. Let’s make sure to insult him for it so he researches how to avoid it next time.