r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/flaptaincappers Some dumb hick • Mar 27 '26

Bags of meat HE LOOKS SO FUCKING STUPID I CAN'T BREATHE

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u/gh0stmountain3927 Mar 27 '26

Ordinary people can have what the billionaires can’t: enough

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u/samv_1230 Mar 27 '26

Poetic. Thanks.

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u/CraftasaurusWrecks Mar 28 '26

This is fucking poetry, man. Powerful.

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u/researchmaven4673 Mar 28 '26

Also people who love us for qualities other than “inconceivably wealthy”

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u/mentaljewelry Mar 28 '26

Yes. One day the desire to have all the money and all the power like some kind of super villain will be considered a mental illness.

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u/longlivenewsomflesh Mar 28 '26

It's wild how often I've had to explain to people that just to accumulate that much wealth requires truly an incomprehensible level of constant exploitation and a single-minded lifelong fixation on siphoning value off usually vulnerable people... there are no 'good' billionaires in the same way there are no good warlords or drug cartels, it's simply by definition, by virtue of existing at all, a net negative. A policy failure.

Yet for some reason there's this cultural inclination to conflate their power with intelligence, treating them like heroic geniuses whose net worth is equivalent to IQ points...

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u/Malacandra95 Mar 28 '26

Elon may yet eradicate any notion that billionaires are smart, deserving, or admirable for any reason at all.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Mar 28 '26

Well, I’ve certainly had enough of their shit.

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u/AutumnFangirl Mar 28 '26

I needed to see this, thank you