Why are you wasting your time defending billionares who are screwing the planet and everyone over? Are you getting paid or are you playing the devil advocate?
There are 800 billionares in USA alone and more than 3000 around the globe. My country italy has about 60 million people and spend 130B on public health each year. The 5.7T you mentioned would be enough to cover the healthcare spending that covers 60M people for 40 years.
This article breaks global emissions down by sector, and I’m assuming that private jets and private yachts (both the top contributors to billionaire emissions from your link) are included in the aviation and shipping sections, which are 1.9% and 1.7% respectively. Both areas are likely dominated by non-billionaire sources (e.g. freight and passenger travel), so we’re probably looking at <1% of global emissions (probably far less) coming from billionaire jets and yachts.
I’m not saying it’s okay for billionaires to be that wasteful, I’m saying it’s not what’s causing our problem, and even if we eliminate 100% of pollution from billionaires, we’ll still have a massive problem.
Are you getting paid or are you playing the devil advocate?
More the second, but mostly because I see people blaming the wrong problem. Billionaires aren’t the problem, though they are symptoms of problems we have, like high medical care costs (and again, insurance company behavior is a symptom), CO2 emissions, erosion of privacy, data breaches, etc. Yes, billionaires had a hand in each of these, but the real problem is the lack of accountability.
As the saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Do you realize how much even 1% in the scale of billions is? It more than entire small countries. If the billionare you are talking about would give you 1% of his money to defend him online you would get 50 millions.
Okay? I don’t care how much money he has, I only care what kind of person he is and what he does with he resources he has.
He chooses to use his position to make a quality service that respects its users, which is sadly uncommon these days. That’s honestly all I expect from a CEO, and for that he gets more respect than most CEOs, meaning I’m pretty “meh” about him. He’s not a villain, but he’s also not a saint, he’s just a reasonable human.
If he offered me 1% of his wealth to shill for him online, I’d probably take it, because I could do so much more good with that money than the minor “evil” of being annoying shilling for a kind of okay dude. $50M means I could fund a charity I believe in and dedicate my time to it.
I honestly don’t care if some people get disgusting amounts of money, I only care how get got it and what they do with it. Gabe Newell seems to care more about the service than the money, and is doing what I expect the average person would do if they had that much money. So he’s a pretty okay dude.
Okay? I don’t care how much money he has, I only care what kind of person he is and what he does with he resources he has.
He’s the ceo of a company that promotes gambling to kids through a proprietary app and he uses their resources to stroll around in a fleet of mega yachts.
If that’s your idea of a fair reasonable human you are a villain yourself.
Why are you wasting your time defending billionares who are screwing the planet and everyone over? Are you getting paid or are you playing the devil advocate?
There are 800 billionares in USA alone and more than 3000 around the globe. My country italy has about 60 million people and spend 130B on public health each year. The 5.7T you mentioned would be enough to cover the healthcare spending that covers 60M people for 40 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban
This article breaks global emissions down by sector, and I’m assuming that private jets and private yachts (both the top contributors to billionaire emissions from your link) are included in the aviation and shipping sections, which are 1.9% and 1.7% respectively. Both areas are likely dominated by non-billionaire sources (e.g. freight and passenger travel), so we’re probably looking at <1% of global emissions (probably far less) coming from billionaire jets and yachts.
I’m not saying it’s okay for billionaires to be that wasteful, I’m saying it’s not what’s causing our problem, and even if we eliminate 100% of pollution from billionaires, we’ll still have a massive problem.
More the second, but mostly because I see people blaming the wrong problem. Billionaires aren’t the problem, though they are symptoms of problems we have, like high medical care costs (and again, insurance company behavior is a symptom), CO2 emissions, erosion of privacy, data breaches, etc. Yes, billionaires had a hand in each of these, but the real problem is the lack of accountability.
As the saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Do you realize how much even 1% in the scale of billions is? It more than entire small countries. If the billionare you are talking about would give you 1% of his money to defend him online you would get 50 millions.
Okay? I don’t care how much money he has, I only care what kind of person he is and what he does with he resources he has.
He chooses to use his position to make a quality service that respects its users, which is sadly uncommon these days. That’s honestly all I expect from a CEO, and for that he gets more respect than most CEOs, meaning I’m pretty “meh” about him. He’s not a villain, but he’s also not a saint, he’s just a reasonable human.
If he offered me 1% of his wealth to shill for him online, I’d probably take it, because I could do so much more good with that money than the minor “evil” of being annoying shilling for a kind of okay dude. $50M means I could fund a charity I believe in and dedicate my time to it.
I honestly don’t care if some people get disgusting amounts of money, I only care how get got it and what they do with it. Gabe Newell seems to care more about the service than the money, and is doing what I expect the average person would do if they had that much money. So he’s a pretty okay dude.
He’s the ceo of a company that promotes gambling to kids through a proprietary app and he uses their resources to stroll around in a fleet of mega yachts.
If that’s your idea of a fair reasonable human you are a villain yourself.