• HousePanther
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    16210 months ago

    What really is upsetting is that Musk has billions with which he can use on a lark. Most of us would consider 100,000 an impossible risk. Billionaires are the problem. I repeat - The problem.

        • Kichae
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          1510 months ago

          And that would preclude them being billionaires

          • bafomdad
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            810 months ago

            and being a billionaire requires being sociopathic

      • HousePanther
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        1010 months ago

        “But where is the fun of that?” says Elon Musk probably.

      • PeleSpirit
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        710 months ago

        Totally not a setup, lol. Have you ever been in the hospital industry behind the scenes? I bet the Zuck wants access to the people’s data and/or funneling money through it somehow.

      • mohKohn
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        610 months ago

        I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.

        • v_krishna
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          110 months ago

          There’s also the UC Beniof Childrens Hospital

          • @Bahalex@lemmy.world
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            810 months ago

            He didn’t build it, but yea his name is on it because of his money. Not that PR money means he has morals. Although, it is a hospital for real human people, not other lizard types.

          • @itsnotlupus@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            Yes, it really was renamed after the Zuckerbergs, as buildings sometimes are at the request of a large donator seeking posterity.

            See Wikipedia:

            In November 2008, San Francisco voters approved an $887.4 million general obligation bond for the General Hospital rebuild, work began in 2009, and was expected to be finished in 2015.

            In 2015, Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Priscilla Chan gave $75 million to help fund equipment and technology for the new hospital.

    • P03 Locke
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      810 months ago

      The rich and powerful have always been the problem for thousands of years. Somehow, we forgot that for a time.