• grue@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It also helps that she was significantly less wealthy than the tech oligarchs, with “only” half a billion dollars. Which is itself a fucking absurd amount of money, and just goes to show just how fucking far beyond the pale the robber-barons of this new gilded age actually are.

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      13 days ago

      For fucking real - decades upon decades of just HUGE smash hits, not just for herself but also others. And she manages a “measly” half a billion, yet these no-talent fucks who inherit their money end up with billions.