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The news: "He will be greatly missed not only by his family and friends but the local community around his club as he employed so many people and made so many friends — he was fun, kind and generous. He didn’t distinguish between his grooms or high net worth friends — when he had a party, everyone was invited and everyone was equal." He leaves behind a daughter and two young sons.
This forum: Didn't read the article, don't know anything about him but good on the bee. Yay death!
Billionaires don't get to be billionaires by being nice or good.
Name one "good" billionaire, I'll wait.
They also support each other with the media outlets they own.
This guy made his new wife sleep with his friends right after their wedding. They let news outlets release this to press back in the day because it was a man's world and they didn't care about the optics like they do now.
There are no good billionaires, prove me wrong.
I suppose JK Rowling, regardless of her personal politics, made her actual money by writing the world's most popular children's book series. Likewise George Lucas I guess is probably a billionaire too. And Taylor Swift.
But these are examples of incredibly lucky creators of novel IPs. There's always been a handful of these people on the lower end of the upper end of economic power.
Inflation made them billionaires by convenience, next.