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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I feel like if every billionaire in the world donated even 1% of their wealth, the world would be a much better place

update: my bored insomniac arse decided to do a little maths

assuming the bare minimum that each billionate has £1,000,000,000 each, 1% of 1 billion is 10 million. there's 3,028 billionares worldwide so if each of them donated 1% (10,000,000 x 3,028) that'd be a WHOPPING £30,280,000,000 and that's a very conservative estimate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Reminder! If your utopia relies on everyone giving up their power peacefully, it is bound to fail. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy a jetski, and have you ever seen someone look sad on a jetski?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I speak from personal experience. It's impossible to be sad on a (working) jet ski.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What if it's working, but isn't in water so it isn't going anywhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Then you just make the vroom vroom noises and pretend like you're zooming around.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

99% of my problems can be resolved by money. So there's that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Money, so they say

Is the root of all evil today

But if you ask for a rise

It's no surprise

that they're giving none away

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I love this quote from Mr. Robot (paraphrase):

I don't care about money, as long as it's enough to live.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ugh, I wish this guy wasn't so problematic. I really did enjoy his off hand type of humor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Other than the Destiny debate which he has sense apologized for saying he was stupid and out of his depth, was there something else he did?

(other than beat Suzy and leave game grumps or whatever the people over at conspiracy grumps used to say /j lmao)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

He never actually apologized. He released a video saying he expressed himself poorly or whatever, then took it down anyway. He never said all the racist points he made were wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

There is a lot of overt racism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't this a picture of the guy who owned Pollen, the company that scammed hundreds of millions of pounds from customers and paid for a dream wedding abroad costing millions while bouncing cheques to his staff?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No this is the youtuber JonTron

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was weird, thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Yup, they do look similar so I see why you got them mixed up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Better be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

It may not buy happiness, but it sure as hell removes a lot of obstacles to happiness!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago

My boss once said, in front of all staff that it's proven that more money doesn't make people happy, and I suggested that we swap out paychecks. She laughed, nobody else did.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

It really doesn't. But it does buy a bunch of prerequesites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The more money they have, the less happy they are. They’re addicted to making money, to watching the line go up and to the right. They’re addicted to trying to destroy the competition and buy them out, to consolidate more and more and more.

They are right when they say that wealth isn’t the key to happiness. They’re riding the bull and they don’t know how to get off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They’re addicted to trying to destroy the competition and buy them out

And that's how they get evil.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather cry in a Rolls Royce than at the bus stop

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Really says more about the disdain for western public transportation.

I'll take coach seats on the Shinkansen over the driver's seat of a Ferrari.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brother, I think being rolled down the street by a sumo wrestler is a better experience than most public transport around here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Worse ways to get rolled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Well I'd take the destinations on the Shinkansen for wherever I'm going now...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

No, but having enough money buys financial security to do what you want.