• where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Most of you would’ve failed even with those starting conditions.

    If you think you can build a billion-worth company, go and do it. VC money can be secured these days with a half-assed power point presentation. You won’t be owning your entire company and someone will make even more money than you, but in just some 10 years you’ll make yourself and someone else a few billions. Then you’ll have a billion or so in starting capital and you can go become the richest human in existence. Clearly, if you’re capable of all those things, you should be already on your way to success instead of complaining on the internet.

    The socioeconomic usefulness of the system allowing for such lifepaths has not been debated. Instead the message enviously pointed out that becoming rich is only possible by being rich in the first place. My argument is that if you’re capable of taking less than a mil and making billions, there’s a system in place already that will allow you to do just that and become famously rich in the process. So, your complaint is invalid. And you’re not anti capitalism, you’re just jealous.

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        The main thing sitting between me and being a billionaire is my conscience and moral values. I’m of the opinion that to become a billionaire you must necessarily have psychopathic tendencies.

        For example: No way I could stand up on stage and bullshit my way through a Cybertruck reveal knowing it’s all lies and unfinished ideas.

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        I’m pro universal basic income and a 99% tax after something around a few mil of annual income. I’d generally advocate for a societal system where such wealth accumulation by an individual is impossible.

        “Lefties” like you make me sick to my stomach. You can only whine your jealous tears and complain about the housing market. You’re the reason everyone thinks the left are a bunch of idiot kids in colorful clothes. In a utopic communist society you’d be leeching off while whining about how everyone keeps working even though it’s clearly unnecessary.

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      cool, I’ll go make a powerpoint, can you also give me the necessary:

      • parents with spare $600k+ (inflation-adjusted from 1994 when Amazon started) to give me to build a prototype
      • rich &/ or influential friends, from my family and my expensive education
      • expensive education
      • etc

      Signed, someone who thinks it is unhealthy for society for any one person to have the equivalent of a billion dollars