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No good billionaires
Sep. 6th, 2022 11:57 amSomeone on a Facebook post asked what I'd eat still even if I was a billionaire, and I answered:
Well that's not going to happen. I'm too nice a person to ever become a billionaire. If I owned a business, I'd be paying my employees $35 an hour, paying for full health insurance for them, giving them maternity and paternity leave, paid time off, four day work weeks, six hour shifts, and being generous with raises. I would be honest and fair with my customers, offer a quality product, and be honest and fair with my suppliers. With all that in mind, even if I was selling something with the same viral hit status as Beanie Babies and the Macarena combined, I'd never be a billionaire because all of this is opposite of what billionaires do. Billionaires becomes billionaires by lying about the quality of goods or services, overworking and underpaying/undercompensating workers, price gouging, cheating their customers, embezzling, and all sorts of horrible things. Nobody good or kind ever becomes a billionaire. Which is why they use charity to improve their PR. If you think a billionaire is a good person, their PR worked on you. You bought their lies. And those charities... the amounts they donate may sound like a lot of money, but it's not even 0.001% of their wealth. Deciding they're good people for donating millions of dollars is the equivalent of holding a parade for a guy making $15 an hour who tossed a penny at a homeless guy once.
Well that's not going to happen. I'm too nice a person to ever become a billionaire. If I owned a business, I'd be paying my employees $35 an hour, paying for full health insurance for them, giving them maternity and paternity leave, paid time off, four day work weeks, six hour shifts, and being generous with raises. I would be honest and fair with my customers, offer a quality product, and be honest and fair with my suppliers. With all that in mind, even if I was selling something with the same viral hit status as Beanie Babies and the Macarena combined, I'd never be a billionaire because all of this is opposite of what billionaires do. Billionaires becomes billionaires by lying about the quality of goods or services, overworking and underpaying/undercompensating workers, price gouging, cheating their customers, embezzling, and all sorts of horrible things. Nobody good or kind ever becomes a billionaire. Which is why they use charity to improve their PR. If you think a billionaire is a good person, their PR worked on you. You bought their lies. And those charities... the amounts they donate may sound like a lot of money, but it's not even 0.001% of their wealth. Deciding they're good people for donating millions of dollars is the equivalent of holding a parade for a guy making $15 an hour who tossed a penny at a homeless guy once.