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    6 months ago

    Hedge fund. He doesn’t care about the employees or the company. Just the money he can make trading the stock.

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        I don’t have a problem with people who create value and become wealthy. They earned it and created good jobs, more power to them.

        Hedge funds, most Private equity, etc can go fuck themselves. They strip wealth and destroy things.

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          I’m not for people only interested in benefiting themselves being the ones rewarded most by society, let alone being the ones effectively in charge of society as they are.

          It isn’t heroic, benevolent, or even minimally pro-social to spend your life trying to accrue private profit for the sake of private profit. It just makes you greedy and selfish. Or as they call it with their orwellian language manipulation, “rational self-interest.” being greedy, selfish, and unconcerned with the effects your actions have on others makes you a vile, broken, contemptible person, and humanity seems to have forgotten that entirely, or at least we’ve been propagandized to forget it by the owner class.

          We punish people that dare to pursue vocations that benefit society, like teachers and paramedics, and reward selfishness.

          I can’t root for my own species in this state. Slitting eachother’s throats when there’s another dollar to be had by it. If this is truly what our species has chosen as it’s most practiced purpose and meaning, I want no part of it, and I will be grateful when it’s time to leave it.

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          No one creates wealth alone. When one becomes that rich, they’ve stolen it.

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          In the sense that Jeffrey Dahmer and Jack the Ripper were also completely human, sure.

          Although that’s not fair to them, the damage they inflicted on humanity was of a ridiculously smaller scale.

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      Notice also how he starts each paragraph with “I” and not to be an armchair psychiatrist but that says a lot about his motivation.

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      I want to make money off of Google stock too, but I also want their shit to work so I can make more money in the future.

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        I mean if he catches wind their products stop working to the point consumers react, he can just sell his stock and move on to destroy another company.

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        I own a little Google stock. I don’t mind they pay their employees a shit ton. I want them make good products. I’m not a fan of most their products but that’s just me

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          lol sorry to break it to you but a few bucks in fractional shares doesn’t count as “owning a little stock”

          🤣

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            I own about 250k of Google stock. So a little bit. I don’t own more because I don’t like that you are the product.

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      So what you’re saying is we start the burning with him?