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The Limits of the Billionaire Imagination Are Everyone’s Problem

by brunooo on 5/4/23, 10:23 PM with 8 comments

  • by BMc2020 on 5/4/23, 11:50 PM

    Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin...We started this company because media is fucked now. We want to be a website that you will actually want to read.

  • by missedthecue on 5/5/23, 4:58 AM

    "It is axiomatic that these people get bored extremely easily. They are panicky and fad-prone and gossipy and move as a herd;"

    A better title might be "nonsense I choose to project onto a group of people I don't much care for".

  • by notmypenguin on 5/5/23, 8:02 AM

    He manages to hit many nails on the head simultaneously. Bravo. Great piece. Fits the contemporary conundrum to a T. Naysayers are doubtless temporarily embarrassed billionaires:)

  • by startupsfail on 5/5/23, 12:38 AM

    Easy. Trace and tax superyacht owners. We’ve been able to do it with Putin. And it’s not like other superyacht owners are that much better.

    A superyacht ownership is decadence, waste of resources, carbon emissions and being above the law, sometimes including severe exploitation. There is no good reason that this should be allowed.

  • by CharlesW on 5/5/23, 12:22 AM