He also really doesn't do much (almost any?) charity so far in his life. And he never had to split assets in a divorce. So he's like a dung beetle of money.

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eirikbakke an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Larry Ellison has been involved with two philanthropic organizations. First he made a $300M donation to Stanford, in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal. All other philanthropic work is to the Larry Ellison institute for prolonging of life--namely his." -- Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

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ge96 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Funny death is the equalizer for now till you get the foundation situation

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admissionsguy an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person

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InexSquirrel 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Honest doesn't make good.

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jen729w 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like he’s a twat.

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admissionsguy 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

Isn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?

	▲	slg 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is always enlightening when people criticizing "virtue signaling" accidentally reveal that the problem they have is not the signaling, it's the having virtue.
	▲	afavour 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you choose to classify all charity donations as "virtue signaling", yes. If you reject that absurd false framing, no.

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mikepurvis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He's been divorced five times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison#Marriages

But I guess with the first one having ended pre-Oracle, he's had a pretty solid pre-nup ever since.

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fastball an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

dung beetle of *wealth

Which is kinda irrelevant. Him selling Oracle shares does not fundamentally change the world in any way. Sure you can say "he should sell shares and do charity", but you could make the same argument that whoever would be buying those shares could be doing charity instead.

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vpShane 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

He did buy an entire island in Hawaii and makes it a decent place for the natives (from what I hear) but otherwise...

Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

https://futurism.com/the-byte/billionaire-constant-ai-survei...

Is the kind of mindset behind this guy.