I've often wondered why these rich assholes need to be online and to fuck with our politics too. I'd be off enjoying my life and forgetting about all that. Their wealth is wasted on these dullards
The speed with which an independently wealthy Maia would get a professional glow up and then 3 PhDs in art history classical philology and ethnomusicology and never have an opinion about anything but the finer points of the development of gandharan sculpture or some shit ever again
Last year I went on a holiday to a cheap glamping spot. Watching the sun set over the mountains whilst sitting in a jacuzzi I thought about all the millionaires who never have to work, but choose to go into an office every day and what a bunch of losers they are.
Right? Shit, I'm barely middle class and I manage to make a pretty good life out on a tropical island....if I had billions? I wouldn't be giving bad interviews...too busy funding the science my friends are doing.
MySpace Tom still the smartest of all the dotcom success stories: my dude travels the world, takes loads of pretty pictures, and does nothing with social media ever other than post them
Richard Branson might be a tool, but he went jet-skiing with a naked model wrapped around him like a spider monkey, and THAT is proper billionaire behaviour.
You simply don't hear about the other ones. The CEO of my first financial employee is a billionaire. He's just as rapacious as the rest, but you didn't hear about him because he has the smarts not to get noticed by saying anything stupid, only posts some nice and cuddly centrist liberal stuff on LI.
I'd take care of my family and friends and then immediately give the vast majority away to people in need. Hopefully that'd get me a spot on the news and an interview where I'd shame the hell out of the world's wealthiest. Probably wouldn't do anything but it'd feel good...
the only thing sadder is being a meritocracy theorist watching the the prime movers, the shapers of modern history, posting the worst, dumbest thoughts anyone has ever had, 280 characters at a time
Right? Billionaires bent on world domination should be traveling in stealth submarines stroking featherless albino parrots surrounded by ninja bikini models while self-destructively channeling their sexual attraction to their arch nemesis into bizarre murder schemes.
On a related note, imagine having the ear of the world’s media, people who will literally drop everything to listen to what you have to say, and not being able to think of anything better to do with that opportunity than be a whiny little prat.
I genuinely truly feel that if I were a billionaire that I would (besides all the charitable giving blah blah blah) focus on creating perfectly ridiculous gardens, getting spa treatments at home, and flying first class. I truly don’t understand the compulsion to do otherwise.
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