I wish the media wasn’t so focused on stuff like this. It’s only feeding their egos and driving them to even further to out compete each other in the worlds biggest a-hole contest.
but rich people literally live for the biggest a-hole contest
We click it. We allow it to be shared. We comment on it.
Ask mods to ban billionaire posts.
For the record it’s extremely unlikely that either are in fact the world’s richest.
Just the richest people dumb enough to talk about it.
Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffett Amateurs can fucking suck it Fuck their wives, drink their blood Come on, Jeff, get 'em
sick keyboard solo AAAAHH—
Imagine losing to someone even though you are rich.
If I had all that money I’d just have more than Jeff. Honestly this is a no brainer. I wouldnt want to be second richtet person. Either richest person or nothing at that point.
Id just give away all the money and retire. Better thsn only being second
I know, right? What even is the point. Congratulations, you’re the number one loser. Might as well just quit.
Not sure what keeps these people going. I’d be retired if I hit a billion.
For them, it’s not about having enough money. It’s about chasing power.
They are sick people.
I doubt they do a great deal tbh
A lot of these net worth increases are from the rising value of companies whose shares they own a lot of (e.g. Amazon in Bezos’s case)
Many people aren’t interested in a life of leisure. They want to create, achieve, and strive. In the same way that someone may want to spend more time creating art, people like Bezos and Musk want to spend more time creating companies that build and make things. Both of them spend a lot of their time on passion projects having to do with space travel, for example.
So the question is: okay, you make your billion and you retire. What then? Lie around and watch TV and stuff? A lot of people are not interested in that.
The part about continuing to make stuff I understand, the fact that they continue to harm others in order to squeeze every last drop of additional money out of everything is the part I’ll never understand
This really is the crux of it. When you try to manipulate government to avoid taxes. When you prevent unionization. Abuse workers for profit. There’s no shortage of negative behaviors and actions by the Uber-wealthy like Musk and Bezos that don’t have anything to do with being creative but definitely point towards them being greedy and controlling assholes.
Its also unfortunate that the comment you responded to takes the “well they’re not really rich” with the “it’s their investments that went up, they didn’t make any money” soft apologist stance when it comes to the Uber-wealthy. Those investments are as good as cash in the bank, they’re leveraged for low interest loans that help dodge taxes. Those loans are cash in the pocket.
Fuck them both, I think Elon is worse but at their level of terrible the difference amounts to a rounding error
Elon is only worse because Bezos doesn’t share every thought in his head with the world.
He built his business by scamming warehouses… They’re both dirt. Bezos just isn’t as insecure and doesn’t try to gloat where everyone can see his insanity.
I agree. In fact, because he doesn’t share his every thought, who knows what he believes? But Elon seems like he’s worse.
Jeff Bezos USED to, back when Twitter properly existed.
How do I join Team Nobody?
Make less than $1B
Hooray! I win but I lose!
Woohoo!! . . .
D’oh!
So stack Bezos ontop of Musk when we’re going for our guillotine day two-fer.
They’re both insufferable.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Good.
After clicking OP’s body link I now know that the CEO that sits over Hennessy is the 3rd richest man in the world and has more money than Mark Zuckerberg. Weird.
I mean, it’s a whole lot more than Hennessey, but yeah.
It’s a conglomerate with many of the really big French luxury brands: LVMH. The LV is for Louis Vuitton, the M for Moët, and finally H for Hennessy. And they have many other $$$ brands under their umbrella.
Didn’t that happen years ago?
