Now would be a good time for a reminder that there is no such thing as a moral billionaire.
Honestly, the closest you come is Notch. Started making a game, got tons of streamer attention, hired some people to help with dev, eventually sold to Microsoft. That was the moment that he went from “made some money off his project” to billionaire in a single leap and also the point he functionally retired.
Has some shitty views, but doesn’t actually involve himself in politics so they’re just his views and not anything he’s actively pushing on anyone else. Despite those views, I still think it was shitty of MS to remove mention of him from his creation and not invite him to the 10th anniversary celebration of same.
The problem is that donating to normy billionaire charities just feed the beast. If Mackinzie or Notch or whoever really wanted to change the status quo they should, for instance, put all the money into strike funds.
MacKenzie could have taken all those billions she got out of Jeff and put it all into giving his workforce the resources they need to organize. That would have been the biggest F-you she could have given him and also the most impactful thing she could have done with the money, to our society. But she didn’t do that because she has Billionaire brain and will never see the workers that got her that money as being worthy of any support and instead she puts it all into bougie micro-lending banks probably run by consulting class assholes.
Yeah that’s really the one exception - people that win some sort of metaphorical lottery and overnight rocket from “can’t retire yet” money to billionaire over night.
Honestly, the closest you come is Notch. Started making a game, got tons of streamer attention, hired some people to help with dev, eventually sold to Microsoft. That was the moment that he went from “made some money off his project” to billionaire in a single leap and also the point he functionally retired.
Has some shitty views, but doesn’t actually involve himself in politics so they’re just his views and not anything he’s actively pushing on anyone else. Despite those views, I still think it was shitty of MS to remove mention of him from his creation and not invite him to the 10th anniversary celebration of same.
This is the MacKenzie Scott defense.
The problem is that donating to normy billionaire charities just feed the beast. If Mackinzie or Notch or whoever really wanted to change the status quo they should, for instance, put all the money into strike funds.
MacKenzie could have taken all those billions she got out of Jeff and put it all into giving his workforce the resources they need to organize. That would have been the biggest F-you she could have given him and also the most impactful thing she could have done with the money, to our society. But she didn’t do that because she has Billionaire brain and will never see the workers that got her that money as being worthy of any support and instead she puts it all into bougie micro-lending banks probably run by consulting class assholes.
Yeah that’s really the one exception - people that win some sort of metaphorical lottery and overnight rocket from “can’t retire yet” money to billionaire over night.
He stole the source code from Hatsune Miku