The 83-year-old founder of the outdoor-themed clothing brand Patagonia and his family have given away ownership of the three-billion-dollar conglomerate so that its profits can be used to fund efforts to protect the environment.
I mean fuck it sure why not? It won’t happen on the large scale because it’s a non-materialist means of political progress but I can imagine a fistful of billionaires doing the tag-along thing of embracing socialism with their ill gotten wealth
there have been some wealthy, class traitor leftists (engels for one) but has there ever been the historical equivilant of a billionaire class traitor? seems like the journey there just filters out anyone not a sociopathic ghoul.
george lucas maybe? he's telling everyone to go read parenti which is based but he basically won the lottery. i wonder if a billionaire went rouge how long he would be allowed to live.
we're going to get a "billionaire CEO accidently creates socialism" like the kim stanley robinson Mars books aren't we?
Robert Owen
I mean fuck it sure why not? It won’t happen on the large scale because it’s a non-materialist means of political progress but I can imagine a fistful of billionaires doing the tag-along thing of embracing socialism with their ill gotten wealth
there have been some wealthy, class traitor leftists (engels for one) but has there ever been the historical equivilant of a billionaire class traitor? seems like the journey there just filters out anyone not a sociopathic ghoul. george lucas maybe? he's telling everyone to go read parenti which is based but he basically won the lottery. i wonder if a billionaire went rouge how long he would be allowed to live.