You don't get that rich in the first place without being a ruthless asshole.
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Proof please, not a slogan.
Like, actual facts.
I should know better than to feed the troll, but…
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
- https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
- http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
One would have had to try very hard to avoid ever hearing about Microsoft's behavior in the '90s.
These are anecdotes. Proving that Bill Gates is an asshole doesn't automatically mean every rich person is an asshole.
What an insane take. Are you not familiar with Bill Gates and like his entire business history? Sure he’s old and donates half of his hundred billion dollars to have half another billion dollars white wash his legacy that doesn’t mean he’s not a terrible person just because his charity has a great PR team.
I mean, do you have a counterexample?
FWIW, Bill Gates is one of the people I would have pointed to as one of the less disreputable modern billionaires, and finding out that Melinda divorced him over his Epstein connections really soured my opinion of him.
john mackey, Definitely a bit ruthless but pretty good at maintaining integrity, only a little bit of an internet troll.
Is this the same John Mackey that fired his own father from the board and criticises younger generations for trying to find meaningful work?
I think OP has a point, it's very difficult to accumulate vast wealth without behaving ruthlessly and being kind of an asshole when it comes to making tough profit-over-people decisions.
Warren Buffett
Almost exclusively invests in companies with anti-competitive (i.e. bad for consumers/society) behaviours.
This. And this also explains why sometimes girls fell love to apparent assholes -- if you are an asshole it doesn't mean you are powerful, however if you are not an asshole then definitely you are not powerful.