• farcaster@lemmy.world
    301·
    4 months ago

    Dealing with 6 different media companies is exhausting. You have no idea. When they finally merge my staff will only need to pay one of them. More time for everyone to play golf. Win-win.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    19·
    4 months ago

    Billionaire here.

    The real problem is the same problem every rich person has: once you surround yourself with yes-men, you lose contact with reality.

    Now that I control the zeitgeist through media messaging, I have no idea what’s going on.

    I try to stay out of my own fart cloud with psychedelic drugs, but really there’s no substitute for real struggle in terms of ennobling one’s soul.

    Just compare the beauty of a tiger to the awkward lines of a pug. As an extremely rich person, the only thing I have to fight are my own demons, and nobody can relate to those.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      6·
      4 months ago

      For only 12.99M per month I will come and fight your demons for you. Like all good therapists, my ways are mysterious and oblique, but mostly involve a super-soaker.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
          3·
          4 months ago

          I require a small cottage at the end of the garden, and if you are to supply the holy water you will need to take appropriate care as to its transport in deion-shielded single-use containers.

  • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 months ago

    All of my media companies just say what i want on their own, the fact that i own them is on the back of their minds and makes them self-censor without me needing to say anything. I just hire a manager that i know agrees with my opinions, he then proceeds to hire journalists that agree with our opinions, and they proceed to do what looks like propaganda without anyone needing to be told to do it.

    I don’t tell my media companies what to report because there’s no need to, and if i did then there would be a paper trail.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Fellow billionaire media magnate here: you’re doing it wrong. You make the news what you want it to be! Isn’t that why we do this, at all!?

      • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        Hello fellow billionaire friend of the worker and free speech!

        But if I don’t read “the news”, how will I know what to order my “journalists” to bury?

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I have many billions. Some would say the most billions. The billions I have are the best billions, everyone agrees.

    Even though I have the best billions, these journalists, nasty people, they attack me. Just because of my billions, can you believe it?

    So anyway, I say who cares what they say, we just need to fight like hell and take back our country ✊

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Ty Warner (creator of Beanie Babies) demonstrates excellent billionaire conduct by intentionally staying off of social media, according to a bio on the You’re Wrong About podcast. This isn’t to say he’s a jerk that shamelessly stole the ideas of other people. He did a whole bunch of that. It’s just once he got his riches, he shut up and ran his company.

    As Elon Musk was considering buying Twitter, a lot of tech wonks examined the situation and came to the same conclusion: to retain his company value, Musk needed to let Twitter do its thing without changing its policy and if possible without commenting from his account. It was already doing the best it could.

    Musk didn’t and now X / Twitter is worth very much less.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      01·
      4 months ago

      Its never been about regular fundamentals with Twitter for Musk, its been bought by the Saudis and other autocratic places together as a cudgel to be used against human rights and modern liberal and free societies for weaponization by the global(ized) rich