• Victor@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    From what I heard, this billionaire seemed like a decent person. But who knows. There are conflicting sources.

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        17 days ago

        Yep there are a couple thousand people with an outsized impact on society and at anytime they could organize and do a lot of good. But they all sit by quietly and actively destroy the society that gave them so much.

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          17 days ago

          That they took so much from* FTFY

          They are exactly like gardeners that only harvest the crop and do not replant any seed. So… thieves.

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        17 days ago

        That’s not true! No matter what kind of billionaire he was in life, now he is a good billionaire. You might also say that all dead billionaires are good billionaires.

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          17 days ago

          No, because they still have a history of being a billionare. Is Hitler magically good after he capped himself? Hell, is every murderer that then turns their weapon on themselves magically good, too?

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        16 days ago

        They still had family and friends, and people who loved them.

        I agree that having such vast amounts of money can’t be a good thing whichever way you look at it, but expressing joy when someone dies is just not civilized in my opinion. It just isn’t.

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            16 days ago

            I never said anyone should be simping. I’m just saying that we can have some human decency and not celebrate someone’s death. It’s not like his death will cause his wealth to be distributed evenly among the rest of us. No reason to throw a party and ridicule by saying shit like “is the bee okay?” (no matter how funny it is).