Current Events > Are there any business , billionaires that you really respect?

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I mean I judge people based on their character, not their bank accounts. If they're a good person then it doesn't matter what kind of money they have

Did Warren Buffett do anything cool besides be a finance guru?

he donates a fuck ton of money to charity

Warren Buffet. Bill Gates. Bezo's ex wife.

edit: any of them that sign this and actually follow through https://givingpledge.org/about

Bill Gates had a big hand in covid vaccines being patented and kept private, he's not a good billionaire, he has much blood on his hands and all because it made him even more rich.

warren buffett is a benevolent billionaire. there are very few that aren't shitheels but he is p decent

what? never heard this about gates and the covid vaccine. Why would he do that though?

To protect profit, profit means more to him than peoples lives.

Buffet just sits around jacking up our car insurance rates and donates those profits to dismantling safety codes in schools and fake charities.

But hey, he eats McDonalds and drinks Coke which is so relatable, we love him.

no

dismantling school safety codes, is this true?

Buffet just sits around jacking up our car insurance rates and donates those profits to dismantling safety codes in schools and fake charities.

But hey, he eats McDonalds and drinks Coke which is so relatable, we love him.

Not a billionaire, but I respect Tom Hanks. He's really down to Earth, and extremely friendly. (I remember the video of him crashing a wedding photo shoot just to say hi and congratulate the couple)

See if I was hyper famous like him, I would be self conscious about doing stuff like that. "Do people really want me to crash their wedding party and make the occasion all about myself???"

Strictly as an entertainer, Vince McMahon. Actions in his personal life are a different story.

What are you basing this on?

The numerous sexual harassment allegations made against him

Bill Gates was one of the biggest pushers of Common Core learning, designed to train every kid to be a cog in the Capitalist machine

i have heard about him really pushing common core. but why would he ? he was due to make a lot of money off of common core...etc...?

Because Capitalism. Art, philosophy, music, theatre, etc. have no room in Capitalism. Common Core grinds everything that isn't STEM out of you

so you think gates had 0 motive or reason to push common core other than to make himself more money?

i have read little about common core and what it does etc...., just have heard a lot of gates being a big pusher of it and how bad it is. have not read much about what exactly common core is, and stuff

Common Core is a standards for content being taught in schools as well as how it is being taught. In many ways the entire system is designed around a lack of critical thinking with many of the choices being made for how to do things largely being dependent exclusively on the exact method of doing things rather than why the method is being done. Thus if you want to learn how the world actually works (in any vocation) you have to go with privatized schooling, furthering the disconnect between the haves and have nots as a function of society. Hence why more than half of the US has seen extreme dips in the funding given to public schools since common core has become a thing: public school is becoming increasingly a thing for "the poors" as a way to get training for whatever menial factory work is necessary.

Mark Cuban seems like a decent guy. Like what hes doing with prescription drugs.