empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoNike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicanswww.oregonlive.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1720arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: oregon@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1710arrow-down1external-linkNike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicanswww.oregonlive.comempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square156fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: oregon@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareskisnow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 day agoThis is exactly why we shouldn’t have billionaires. It’s literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what’s left but to spend it on manipulating other people.
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·23 hours agoThey could spend it on bettering the world, but that would never occur to them.
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours ago“I don’t want to live in a world where my company isn’t the one company making the world better”
This is exactly why we shouldn’t have billionaires. It’s literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what’s left but to spend it on manipulating other people.
They could spend it on bettering the world, but that would never occur to them.
“I don’t want to live in a world where my company isn’t the one company making the world better”