06 February 2019, 09:12 PM
AxtremusAbolish Billionaires
Abolish Billionaires
https://nyti.ms/2DVFzj9“Every billionaire is a policy failure.”
06 February 2019, 09:23 PM
jon-nycThis is just Frans de Waal’s capuchin monkey throwing his cucumber.
Maybe they’ll abolish Carlos Slim as a beta test.
06 February 2019, 09:43 PM
Steve Millerquote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
This is just Frans de Waal’s capuchin monkey throwing his cucumber
Had to look that one up.
08 February 2019, 07:43 AM
jon-nycquote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Maybe they’ll abolish Carlos Slim as a beta test.
In case this reference is obscure...
The reason the writer of the above piece has a New York Times to publish in is because the billionaire Carlos Slim Helu swooped in and saved it in 2009.
(Like the billionaire Jeff Bezos did to the Post a few years later.j
08 February 2019, 08:23 AM
Piano*DadIrony is often delectable!
It's easy to add more anecdotes...
We have a growing advantage in space because billionaires have created a private industry that is producing spacecraft that are more effective and more efficient than the Soviet-style NASA can develop (SLS). By Soviet-style I mean three things: bureaucratically and politically ossified, wedded to giganticism, and addicted to cost overruns.