empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoNike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicanswww.oregonlive.comexternal-linkmessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up1717arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1705arrow-down1external-linkNike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicanswww.oregonlive.comempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square158fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareskisnow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 months 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-up9·2 months agoThey could spend it on bettering the world, but that would never occur to them.
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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”