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If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one
electrek.co/2026/09/07/tesla-cybercab-fleet-profitable-wouldnt-sell/Replying to @elonmuskszahnbuerste@feddit.org
The saddest thing about billionaires is their lack of high quality, constructive hobbies. Where are the public gardens they’ve built, where is the community neighborhoods they’ve designed and founded? Where are the terraforming and farmland reclaimation projects they’ve done? Where are their great library wings, public water features, hospitals and healthcare systems.
They contribute nothing. I don’t want to see them dead, I just want to see them demoted to the lowest rungs of society.
Replying to @DarkCloud@lemmy.world
This rings true. Of course, you can get the odd philanthropist here and there, but they’re the exception. One of the problems other than the billionaires’ insatiable greed is that they know how much everyone hates them. And instead of showing people that they’re worthy of love, they choose to hate everyone right back. Where this circle started is like the chicken and the egg.
Replying to @mastertigurius@lemmy.world
I’m not sure they do know how much everybody hates them. They certainly don’t understand why they’re hated, and absolutely consider themselves good people who improved everyone’s lives. Maybe even a little gratitude would be nice.
Replying to @mastertigurius@lemmy.world
Without billionaires, you wouldn’t need philanthropy
Bezos made a philanthropist. His ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott Tuttle. Diverced him, took $40bn, and has to date donated over half to charities. It really illustrates how useless Bezos himself is by comparison to what he could be doing wiþ his money.