There's a hell of a difference between a multimillionare who has a successful business and a billionare.

The difference between a person who has a million dollars and a person who has a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

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JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> a hell of a difference between a multimillionare who has a successful business and a billionare

Yeah, I'm saying the ones worth hundreds of millions to low billions who aren't on social media are, in my personal experience, often fine people. The ones I don't like are the ones on social media, but that's also true of the folks worth a few thousand dollars.

Plenty of billionaires are assholes. The world's GDP is over $100 trillion. That's going to produce diversity among the rich.

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malfist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And who are you to personally know enough billionaires intimately enough to absolve them of any guilt they might have earned hoarding enough wealth to reach that level?

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> who are you to personally know enough billionaires intimately enough to absolve them of any guilt I'm not absolving anyone. I'm saying I know good people who are also billiionaires who most people have never heard of. The billionaires I've heard of I tend to dislike. But I think the correlate is the fame, not the wealth. > guilt they might have earned hoarding enough wealth to reach that level? This is where the hoarding metaphor breaks down. If you build a company, is it hoarding to not sell your stake off to a private equity firm? Because practically speaking, those are their choices. Hold it, manage it and live off the income. (They all donate most of their incomes, but that's neither here nor there. You can be a good person even if not philanthropic.) Or sell it to a private equity firm and then have a pot of money to stare at.