• swlabr@awful.systems
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    10 days ago

    The saying “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” springs to mind. Who did they, or their families fuck over, in order to garner that sort of wealth?

    There’s a running joke/working theory I’ve heard that in order to become billionaire, you have to have killed someone. (The reality is almost definitely worse)

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      7 days ago

      The billionaire initiation ritual is that scene from Kingsman where

      spoiler for a 11yo movie I guess

      they ask him to kill his dog but instead of a dog it’s a literal child that was performing forced labour for the last year and just wants to go home to its parents, and the bullets are very much live

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        7 days ago
        the passing criteria:

        They only pass if they go out of their way to kill a dog anyway.