• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    If you gave me the choice between 50 million and a billion I’d take a billion too; but if you gave me 50 million no one would hear from me again as I would quit my job, move somewhere quiet, and keep to myself.

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      Just for clarity’s sake.

      The question was ‘What can you buy with a billion that you couldn’t get with $50 million?’

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        Right, but you said they insisted they wanted the billion. I’d want the billion too, but if I had 50 million I wouldn’t be complaining that I didn’t have a billion.

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      I wouldn’t quit my work with 50 million. I’d turn it into a big corp then invest in more. I’d likely work just as much but it would be to make more cash to invest into more companies so I can see my own agenda play out in ways I want.

      Someone that would fuck off with 50 million would fuck off with 5 million and that’s exactly why you won’t ever have that opportunity.

      That’s not me saying it’s a bad thing that you’re like that, just the reality of how some people think.

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        “If I had a horde of money I’d try to make it an ever bigger horde so I could tell people what to do.”

        Yes, that exact attitude is the problem with billionaires and why simply being a billionaire is a sign of mental illness, because people without a hording disorder will fuck off long before they get to a billion.