• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    If I were a billionaire, the amount of low-to-no cost housing, green energy, and fiber internet I would build would be off the charts. And with Elon Musk money, I’m fairly certain I could ensure that NO ONE in the US would ever have to worry about where their next meal would come from. Certainly not schoolchildren. Also, I would commission a third season of the classic 1999 anime Big O, with the original writers and showrunner.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      Unfortunately if you were a billionaire you’d be a selfish sociopath so wouldn’t think of any of these things.

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        21 hours ago

        Correct me if I’m wrong - I’m not American, so I wouldn’t see this regularly - but I swear I heard about a lotto jackpot or two that hit the billions of dollars (maybe it was close, if wasn’t that much). So it’s possible (rare as all fuck, but possible on occasion) to get to that - or close to it - without building it on the backs of the working class. If that happened to DominusOfMegadeus then that would be awesome! All for it. It’s unfortunately more likely that you’re crushing people’s spines as you climb the mountain of them to reach that amount though. Blargh…

        • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 hours ago

          Lotteries are a tax on poor people.

          They are also a “bread and circuses” type thing.

          Plus basically all the winners end off worse than before/dead

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      20 hours ago

      She did give away a lot of money to charity. About 16% of her wealth when she became a billionaire iirc. Gave to help children in poverty and to fight the disease MS.

      I don’t know much about her stance on trans people other than she seems to believe that there is a difference between trans and biological women. Feel free to drop a good link where I can educate myself.

      Anyway, reading comments here make it sound like she’s a modern day Hitler that’s never done anything good in her life, and that sounds both unfair and untrue.

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        12 hours ago

        At the risk of godwinning, imma gonna quote my much beloved grandfather:

        “And hitler was kind to his dogs”

        Donating a crapload to charities she personally gives a shit about doesn’t magically balance out the horrendous transphobic bigotry she is directly funding.