• SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Commercially successful for the individual, but what at cost for everyone else? No one becomes this wealthy without shortcuts. And those shortcuts affect us all, whether you care to look at it or not.

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      7 days ago

      You really believe that successful people who work their ass off to make something of their lives are all assholes who take short cuts?

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      9 days ago

      The root of the argument here is that billionaires are not a sign of economic success, even for the individual. It’s an enormous shortcoming, failure, and monument to greed.