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r/FluentInFinance

Im seeing more of a Timothy Chalamet.
r/movies

Yeah Im missing it too. I think its more about like, gravity? You know if your car stalls youre just stuck on the road. If your plane stalls mid-flightyou got major problems. And eventually, a component is going to fail at an inconvenient time, and if there isnt a redundancy or the redundancy also fails, you can pretty much kiss your ass goodbye. I will say, without knowing too much about rich people aviation hobby, I dont understand why more arent prepared/able to eject out with a parachute when something goes wrong.
r/AdviceAnimals

Trump has entered the chat.
r/AdviceAnimals

Once again missing the point. Johnelle Hunt became a billionaire by starting a successful trucking company. What immoral act did she do? Judy Faulkner became a billionaire by developing an in-house patient record keeping program that the medical industry uses. Shes never made an acquisition and develops all the software in-house, and has also pledged to (eventually) give 99% of her assets to charitable foundations. Wheres her requisite immorality? Taylor Swift became a billionaire by making music and performing concerts/tours. Immoral? I can come up with many more examples of billionaires who got there through normal business means, no Chinese child labor required. It is silly to try to convince people that you can only become a billionaire through illicit or evil means when thats patently untrue. Furthermore, its just not the issue at hand. Once you get over yourself and realize billionaires who got there ethically can and do exist, that does nothing to subvert the real issue at hand; a billion dollars is too much of a finite resource to rest in the hands of a single individual, no matter how they attained it. If we dont cut the nonsensical red herrings out of the discussion and get directly to the meat, we make addressing this issue harder than it needs to be.
r/dataisbeautiful

For money.
r/AdviceAnimals

Its not about how massive a billion dollars is. Someone born into it didnt do anything unfair to anyone else. Someone who innovated a product that the majority of people want to pay for, when there are 330 million+ people just in the domestic market, and obviously much more foreign, also not hard to see how someone can accumulate massive amounts of wealth just in the course of normal business dealings. Again a combination of luck and innovation, being the first to market with an idea thats popular with consumers, can lead to such massive wealth without necessarily doing anything immoral or fucking people over. Try reading the rest of my comment before having a knee jerk reaction. It is because I understand how massive a billion dollars is that I said and will now repeat its not about what it took to become a billionaire, it is the act of hoarding a billion dollars or more in itself that is immoral. Whether a billionaire got there fairly or not is not relevant. Having that much money and not putting a significant amount back into society is whats immoral and deserves focus. Focusing on the alleged immoral means is a red herring and disrupts the discourse around the immorality of the existence of billionaires regardless of how they became one.
r/AdviceAnimals

We just have to get over it.
r/AdviceAnimals

I mean having the winning idea at the right time, being both lucky and innovative could lead to someone becoming a successful billionaire without necessarily acting immorally. That being said, most of the billionaire class were born into wealth/connections or did act immorally to get there. But I think rather than focusing on the harm it potentially took to become a billionaire, isnt as important as focusing on the fact that simply hoarding that amount of wealth is in itself the act that is immoral. Whether you fucked people over or not to get there should largely be irrelevant. Once there, you have a moral obligation to put money back into society. Whether through philanthropic means, taxes, etc. but as we should all be aware by now, the vast majority of billionaires, despite having more wealth than they could spend in several thousand lifetimes and massive unchecked power/influence on media and politics, they are never satisfied. They continue to hoard more and more money, which is a finite resource, leaving less for us as individuals or as a collective society that should have more and better entitlement programs/social safety nets.
r/AdviceAnimals

Eh, the shooter very clearly and obviously wanted to get caught.
r/videos

Im now 10 times angrier than I was previously!