I know we all hate people like Bezos and Gates, but the real leeches on society are the people who directly own capital responsible for natural resource exploitation.

While tech billionaires are bad, the capital that they own is all tied to R&D or software, the resource barons on the other hand, own and control vast swathes of land and infrastructure that exploit natural resources.

Oil barons, real estate tycoons, Coal barons are the greatest evils.

Know your enemy comrades.

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't agree if you're suggesting that Amazon inventory and warehouses aren't "capital responsible for natural resource exploitation." It's a different part of the chain, but I fail to see a meaningful distinction. If you're going to say "not tech billionaires" you should back that up. Looks like both are "real parasites" to me.

    • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      IMO Bezos doesn't really count as a tech billionarie because Amazon's primary business is in ecomm shipping and even AWS is mostly about renting data center capacity, not about buying software.

      Zuckerberg, the Paypal guys (fuck Thiel tho), Ellison, and McAfee (my personal favorite billionaire) are software and services billionaires.

      • leftofthat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That's a very fair point I was more blindly reacting to the post. But I will still call Zuckerberg a "real parasite" I don't think trying to draw that distinction promotes much here