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With the focus of wealth inequality, I thought I'd just share this morbid reminder from the middle ages that there is no inequality in death. It will find everyone. No amount of money will let anyone escape it. Just something to consider when you are thinking about what to pursue in life. To that extent, I do feel somewhat sorry when I hear that a billionaire has died, because I know that they likely spent most of their life pursuing things that are ultimately worthless, and it makes me re-evaluate just what I am doing with mine.
But billionaires def work less than a lot of people without monies.
There are billions that work 10+ hours per day just to survive (working for and making billionaires richer).
A life with much less experiences than any billionaire, less vacations, less family time, etc.
They certainly don't have to work as much, or at all really. I recognize that there is an enormous gap between someone struggling to put food on the table and a billionaire, but it is also very easy to focus on work and increasing financial stability/independence at the detriment of more important things. It reminds of the song Cat's In The Cradle: https://youtu.be/5u-KWa3tL-0?list=RD5u-KWa3tL-0 (especially appropriate on Father's day weekend). My dad worked long hours when I was growing up, and I slept in a hallway/laundry room because he couldn't afford to rent a larger place, but he still made time for me and my siblings, and I wouldn't trade my childhood for literally all the money in the world.
Does that mean that people who are struggling to feed their family don't really need the money? No. Would it have been easier if my family had more money? Sure. But I have also noticed that peoples' lifestyles seem to grow to match their incomes, and it never seems like it is quite enough. There is always that next job or promotion or opportunity that will put you in a slightly better position and then finally it will be enough. Once basic needs met (air, water, food, shelter), I believe that money can start creating more problems for people than it solves. With tons of money comes tons of distractions, and temptations; there aren't any poor people on the Epstein list. Its easy for me to say they are horrible people and I would never engage in activities like that, but it also isn't an option for me. I can't honestly claim virtue for avoiding an evil that my situation in life doesn't allow for. Life seems much easier when nobody stops you from getting what you want, but I have to wonder if sometimes it is a blessing in disguise when they do...
Yes, but you are not describing how the elite lives, or does business/opportunities.
They have people for the toughest of work & decisions. Their only work is moving capital around & giving general ideas to people working for them. The people working for them are paid millions.
(The "manual labor", such as designs or wherever, is like a hobby, not a business/success necessity.)
There is an unimaginable difference between people with 10s of millions ("rich") vs billions.
(And, since you mention 'promotions', there is a total mentality shift between the owner class & the working class, even when the latter get paid millions.)
And/Tho workaholics aren't really tied to a class.
I know plenty of workaholics that are lower or middle class, overworking themselves bcs they can't really not do it, even when they know they are missing on family time & extra work won't provide extra finances.
No.
The whole mentality of "yo, it's really hard to be rich, not worth it, feel sorry for me" is literally just propaganda for the workers to be docile & keep working dead-end jobs.
Plenty of low-income junkies.
Plenty of low-income pedofiles.
Just their surroundings are different if they are billionaires. And their power and immunity too.
Its just people, all of it, with the difference that a few benefit from the work of/added value by many.
"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."
-Hamlet, A4S3
Eat the rich, got it 👍
Nono, feed them to worms and fish with those worms. Gotta' let nature filter out some of those billionare greed toxins first.
From what I heard, this billionaire seemed like a decent person. But who knows. There are conflicting sources.
There are no good billionaires.
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.
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.
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.
You do not retain assets when you die. There is no such thing as a good billionaire.
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?
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.
What good do you think will come from simping for billionaires?
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).