• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    They want to make every one of us penniless, and control ALL the money. If they can’t get it from us from taxes, fines, and over-priced consumer goods, they’ll train us to just throw it away by gambling.

    And they’ll just scoop it all up. Nothing left for children to inherit, nothing saved for retirement, nothing saved to start a business, but a second home, send kids to college, etc.

    But it’s worse than that. You got out of college with massive student loans that will take a lifetime to pay off. Now you have a massive gambling debt that just keeps growing, because your addicted as sure as if it were heroin. Now you’re gambling, not to “make it interesting,” but because you’re trying to win the money to get yourself out of your hole. You don’t worry about losing any more, because your already so deep it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you could win at any time, and start digging your way out.

    Or maybe you avoided the student loan trap somehow, but now they convince you that gambling in fun, get you into debt, and trap you that way.

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    His secret bunker is on Maui.

    Don’t tell everyone.

    The locals won’t help you find it of you ask them.

    They definitely don’t hate him as much as all of us, or more.

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      7 hours ago

      And Larry Ellison doesn’t conspicuously have a whole island in Hawaii that’s thus easy to find and widely known. Except his locals seemed a little more wary to speak ill of him.

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      I saw some of them in a store just today and holy shit they look dumb as hell. I used to have bose frames and honestly i loved them so much, they were great but flimsy unfortunately. They lookes kinda odd because the handle things were pretty wide but i didn’t really care. Now a days i wouldn’t probably wear tgem because they reaemble these dumb as fuck creep glasses

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    11 hours ago

    So we know that he is actively harming young people on Instagram. We know that he was showing ads for CASM content in India and is profitering from that. He know wants to hook young people on gambling. Maybe he should get a restraining order preventing him from interacting with children at all.

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    11 hours ago

    I wonder how effectively those glasses would protect his face from a baseball bat swung at full force. Probably not very well, but I’d pay good money to see it tested on him all the same.

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    11 hours ago

    Mark Zuckerberg shizzle sounds eaga to get young peeps hooked on online gamblin

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          i follow, but there’s a bedrock legal principle that the government can’t levy a tax on one person. (basically they don’t want the government picking on individuals) can’t remember what it’s called, but we’d need to make it broad enough it’s not focused specifically on him. which would lower the effectiveness of the Billionaires In Public Gotta Pay Me Money Because Fuck Them tax

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    11 hours ago

    I suppose the wealthy probably should have all of the money.

    Although wouldn’t that make it easier to just switch to a different currency? If I can’t get dollars cause the wealthy have all of it, dollars are essentially worthless to me.

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    He’s eager for anything to help him gain more wealth, because he doesn’t have enough yet and enough is never enough.

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      That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.

      Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.

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        Considering he is not the only billionaire behaving like this, in fact I couldn’t think of a single billionaire who doesn’t act like this, then the behaviour seems to be some sort of disease transmitted by extreme wealth.

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          Exactly. How embarrassing to have your 140 ft yacht passed by your rivals 165ft yacht that neither of you could drive, repair, navigate, service, fuel, register, or even crew yourself.

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        I feel like it is in human nature. Its in most of us. But basically all of us encounter this only with video games. Like incremental games were the numbers most go up and it is deeply satisfying even though a lot of them have a deeply disturbing meta-subplot going on while you progress through absurd numbers. Had the same feeling with the ye old Sim City titles. At the start you might roleplay as a “good” virtual mayor but at some point you probably reach the point where you are going to plane entire neighborhoods to build high-rises with fake water-access to min-max your economy on the limited space you are given. The games are already abstract to begin with but with time the abstraction layer gets to the point where you try to game the given rules of the designer.

        I’m no expert. But i feel like Zuckerberg managed to reach that point in real life. Basically unchecked by the rules of society he does whatever the fuck he wants to play a perverted meta-progression of life.

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      Eager or desperate? They rebranded their entire company around a clusterfuck vr second life. Are they actually producing enough to stay relevant?

      Facebook has been trending downhill for a long time. Threads I barely hear about. I don’t hear as much about Oculus as I used to.

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        Facebook and shit don’t matter much, but whatsapp is the primary form of communication for a good chunk of the world.

        Fun fact: in some places, whatsapp and Facebook (and a few other sites) isn’t even considered to be “internet”. Like, if you don’t pay an ISP you still get access to those. Then paying for “internet” gives you access to everything else.

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          Advertising is still the vast majority of their revenue, and as far as I can tell with a few quick Google searches a significant portion of that still comes from Facebook.

          I’d be keenly interested in seeing actual numbers if you can locate them, because they don’t appear easy to come by, but I seriously a doubt your assertion that their core product’s add revenue doesn’t matter to their bottom line.

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    Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various “mystery box” items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.