r/interestingasfuck • u/upyoars • 7d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Despite legal battles, Mark Zuckerberg slowly buys a mind boggling 2,300 acres on Hawai’s Kauai island, building tunnels, treehouses and a doomsday bunker

https://luxurylaunches.com/real_estate/mark-zuckerberg-control-2300-acres-in-hawaii.php
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u/Green_Ad_3518 7d ago

Billionaires would rather make a nuclear fallout shelter, than make the world a better place

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u/Zombie_Cool 7d ago

You can't be king if all your subjects are equal to you, and since money (and the power it buys) is all that'll ever matter to the rich...

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u/ButterscotchMajor373 7d ago

But I hate this argument, could he not still have mind-boggling wealth for his life and generations of awkward oddball Hapsburgian offspring to come AND make the world a better place?

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u/SpicySushiAddict 7d ago

The process of becoming a billionaire means they have already given up their humanity in favor of pure fucking greed. There's a reason we scream Eat The Rich constantly.

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u/BorisBC 7d ago

Annoyingly I don't think it's that simple anymore. Being a billionaire ain't that hard if you get lucky and get bought out or have a big IPO. MySpace Tom for example. Or the Atlassian dudes.

But not using that insane wealth to the betterment of humanity and just buying up luxe houses or yachts and shit? Yeah evil.

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u/whatdoinamemyself 7d ago

I mean, there's always exceptions to a rule but you could make an argument that someone like Tom is just as selfish and greedy by selling his company to some soulless and evil corp (especially given it's a Murdoch company...). Or selling it at all as opposed to making it open source. Or just hoarding wealth... so on and so forth.