It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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    1 year ago

    there are people who have over a billion dollars worth of positive impact on the world.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not grotesque and that’s not wealth. But still a nice thought to keep in mind.

      I wish these people were as famous as the loud-ass billionaires we have.

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      1 year ago

      There certainly have been such people. But none were ever billionaires. Such people do something which creates great value. Billionaires are parasites who do nothing but siphon value away from society.

      Albert Einstein, Nikolai Vavilov, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr, Alan Turing, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Faraday, Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton, Edward Jenner, Harriet Tubman, Louis Pasteur, etc.