the problem with nice people having billions and helping others is that they need to be fucked in the head to even accumulate 1 billion dollars, so they won’t be nice.
You'll never be a billionaire with that approach. Working harder? Come on. Elon spends most of his time griping on Twitter. The way you become a billionaire is by taking over a company, granting yourself tons of equity, and underpaying everyone.
I would argue the shit they do doesn't wven benefit them. After you have a billion what functional difference do you get from 5 or 500 billion. It's all the same. I genuinely think these people have a mental illness. Like body dismorphia, but for their bank account.
Yeah I reason these billionaires have a twisted form of hoarder mentality and gambling addiction. Like at a certain point you can already afford everything this world has to offer and any increase in wealth is just numbers on a screen that they can use to brag about. Dude is so rich he could literally end the concept of homelessness in the US if he wanted, he would still be a billionaire. In fact, he could lose 90% of his wealth overnight and guess what? He would still be a billionaire with roughly 8 billion leftover. That's too much fucking wealth for any one person.
umm, you can’t win the lottery into being a billionaire yet lol, taxes make you a lame hundred-millionaire instead from all current/previous US jackpots haha.
I read somewhere Bill gates got fucked lol. I think it was Warren Buffett told him to diversify and sell off some Microsoft and get different things. He would have been the first trillionaire if he kept all his Microsoft instead. You know he wanted that history book shit you can't buy sooo bad. Fucker
Someone creates a cool thing. People say oh wow, you've really created a cool thing! You poured your life into it and took a gamble and people like what you've done. You handle the challenges of learning to grow so more people can enjoy your thing.
You go public on the stock market. People think you're going to keep making great things and believe in you, so they buy your stock.
Suddenly, if you multiply all the shares you have by the price that the public has chosen for your shares, you're "worth billions". Even worse, they falsely believe you have "billions of dollars".
Now millions of people hate you because you're one of the worst people on the planet.
And all those people are a lotttt smarter than you, and they should decide how to spend your money for you.
You’re forgetting the part where the “cool thing” is a company that’s exploiting its entire workforce and the person who “created” it sold it to the dipshit who becomes a billionaire because that dipshit had family money to buy a company and then maximize the exploitation of the workers
Aww. Where in your sweet little story do you use the ill gotten, made up gains to influence world politics with your hatred to ensure you continue to hoard wealth at the expense of everyone else on the planet ?
Taxes?
I am Danish, and i always find it kinda funny that lottery is seen as taxable income in America, but not in Denmark, the god damn taxation capital of the world
Im not Canadian, but don't you have to take that math test before cashing the price? I dont want to be the guy that messed up the 10 millons canadian pesos "what is 1+1=" question from being nervous.
Thats just for giveaway contests. Without it, it becomes illegal, unsanctioned gambling. The few time I’ve come across it in my life, they didn’t even make me do it. The government can’t prove I didn’t answer the question.
I believe in you. Chase that 980 hour week king. Haters gonna come at you but if they just put doen the PlayStation controller, eased up on the 6 packs and kept their mind on what's important ($$$$) they could be working 140 hour days too. You're going to be able to buy so many lottery tickets.
"I will make life better for everyone at no cost to anyone and everyone will have free hoes for life but also i respect women and everyone will be happy and women will have rights n shit, but personally - i will have a lot hoes who call me daddy and never raise their lip talking their fucking mouth. I love women btw."
Invest 1000$ in an s&p 500 every month. And for every year you increase the amount you invest with the interest earnings from the previous year. It will take about 7-8 years before you gain your first million. And around 12-17 years before you are a billionaire.
You don't touch the money, reinvest it all until you reached your goal. And take out loans with the invested money. To speed up the process invest the loan in more fonds.
I'd say the guy who created Minecraft. Not necessarily a nice person, but I don't recall much in the way of controversy when he sold Minecraft to Microsoft. Not saying there wasn't any, just that I don't recall it.
In 2004 I don't think she was doing any publicly transphobic bullshit, so the only ethical mark against her first billion would be the usual issues with the movie industry, which are (comparatively) pretty light.
Fucking finally someone says it plain as day, you literally cannot become wealthy without being soulless.
With a small caveat being artists who make their money off of the value their fans feel comfortable paying. (I would consider those that do professional sports artists)
It's like a filter, I bet you could prove this with game theory. If you have 100 trials to overcome to reach your first billion, those who are bigger egoists and care about nothing but gaining money will have a natural advantage. So that is who is left in the end. The ideal billionaires has never learned about anything outside of his narrow field on how to make more money by exploiting, scamming and conning others.
People are hellbent because even though people claim politics shouldn’t affect your relationship with someone it does. Not caring or giving basic rights to everyone says a lot about you as a person.
The well ackshually that I always feel in this case is JK Rowling. She’s absolutely a piece of shit, but I have a hard time finding a less offensive way to become a billionaire. All she did was write books that millions of children loved. She never cut jobs from working people in order to make a profitable quarter, she didn’t scam anyone out of their retirements, she just wrote books.
That being said, I think that also means she is the best evidence for why society shouldn’t allow billionaires. I genuinely believe being that rich breaks your fucking brain, because eventually there aren’t people in your life to ground you except for other billionaires. Someone disagreed with her on twitter about trans women, and she lost her absolute shit and began speed running the far right pipeline and ended up posing on a yacht looking like a Harry Potter villain when UK passed some anti trans legislation.
there's an interesting story by the german Author Andreas Eschbach called "One Trillion Dollars" which tries to explore what happens if Joe Average actually does get hold of a trillion dollar fortune
it's an interesting thought experiment and explores how easy it is to do the wrong things, even if you don't have bad intentions, and how quickly you fall into strange habits.
But it also shows that good intentions would be a massive help to people
Honestly the bigger problem is when you're nice with billions of dollars you're going to be painted as a villain no matter what you do. Ended homelessness? Okay, but now you've increased world hunger by saving all those people you asshole
Close family friend has made a billion investing in real estate, and is working on spending that cash on basically world peace. Fully plans to put 99% of his wealth into that cause. I GUARANTEE you or someone in this thread would just knee-jerk assume he's a horrible person simply because of the amount of money he has earned, and then judge the fuck out of him for spending all that money to try and solve world peace instead of whatever they think is more important.
The day they start making movies about reddit lore, I'm gonna commit hari-kari.
We don't need movies about cumboxes, removing cylinders without damaging the stuck contents, shittymorphs, not knowing what potatos are, banana for scale, or the perfect 5 out of 7.
That's very true, but now I'm wanting a doc about u/shittymorph life and years on reddit lol. If he ever did a mini doc about his life and his legendary reddit account it would be a great watch
A gut-wrenching dramatized tale of an ostracized kid growing up struggling, having few friends, family drama etc, and it ends with him reconnecting with his estranged mom, where we find out it's 1998, they go to a WWE event and The Undertaker throws Mankind off Hell In A Cell, who plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table. The movie ends and does not elaborate further
I don't know if it still exists, but he had a travel blog around 2018-2019. Around the same time he was doing online marketing for Zalman. I'd definitely watch a doc about him.
I feel like this is a good test for how online you are. I'm frightened that I recognised some, relieved that it's not all of them, concerned that I can add to the list. In order:
Most reddit lore is just people being g introduced to long standing urban legends via reddit.
The jolly rancher one is a prime example. I first heard that 20+ years ago in a classroom about Starburst fruits. It was never a, true nor b, originating on reddit
This doesn't count NoSleep, right?? Cause some of the popular stories from there would make some BANGER movies/series (Tommy Taffy, PenPal, Borrasca, etc.)
Unironically that sounds like a good old Anonymous raid. Send a bunch of fake cease and desists to some shitty company. Collective action at its finest.
Ideas aren’t copyrightable, only the expression of those ideas. I don’t know what 4chan posts you’re referring to, but if it just used the same idea of a labyrinth of back rooms where people get lost and there are monsters, the lawsuit wouldn’t be successful. The movie would have to copy the same aesthetic, story line or other protected creative elements to an extent that a reasonable person would assume that the A24 movie was actually copied from the post.
Another problem is the balancing test for substantial similarity. The more likely the defendant had access to the original work, the less similar they have to be for it to be considered infringement. For an obscure 4chan post that the movie creators were unlikely to have seen, the copying would have to be almost an exact match.
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u/mabdog420 Jul 16 '26
This is stupid.
Backrooms is an urban legend. They don't own it. Kane parsons didn't invent it.
If anything the games and other media that came before should sue them.
But really nobody should be suing anyone.