• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    6 days ago

    Call me medieval, but I don’t understand these people… If I somehow had a ploy to make that kind of money in one shot I’d make like a bandit and vanish… Then retire. That kind of money is never work again money. I could retire at 30 and die in my 80s a rich man.

    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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      Cause you’re thinking like an unhappy poor person. Not like someone who has the entire world at their disposal to consume and exploit.

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        This is absolutely right. Money to them isnt a tool for comfort and happiness, its simply a byproduct of power and exploitation of that power. These people dont want to be able to go into a bar and buy anything they want, they want to go into the bar and buy the whole thing and the street its on. Youre the consumer just wanting enough grass to munch on, they are the predator plotting behind you.

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      See and that is why I almost pitty such people. They never learned how to be a normal person. How to be satisfied with what you have. But I did say almost. Cause they make the world a shithole for the rest of us.

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      But that woman in the photo looks like she loves her job & loves the tech industry, she will show up gladly every day and do whatever it is she does to earn that 30 million per year. In fact she would probably show up gladly every day and do her work regardless of how much they pay her, which makes me wonder why they’re even paying her at all, we don’t get paid to do things we’re good at & enjoy!

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        Yes I have, and I am not that. I would like a few tens of millions of dollars so I can sooth my anxiety that I will never want for anything again. But that is all.

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          Thats why people do, its like I just need this much, a little bit more, now I want to make sure my next generation or my kids won’t have to worry about money, more, more, more. Thats how irl works.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728

    And remember,

    Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

    And

    I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don’t use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there’s some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there’s a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      (Wow your time stamps work. The last few years every time stamp I’ve written exactly like that, correctly, simply hasn’t been working. Just links to the beginning of the video. I really need to figure out what’s going wrong.)

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        I borrowed the comment wholesale from the first link, thank the OG ycombinator masklinn for their timestampery!

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    Hot damn, how did she manage to scam a whole company executive and its shareholders into thinking shes worth 29.7m dollarydoos?

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      Eh, in this case yes, but I’ve seen two musicians do it at hardcore and metal shows recently. Both after talking about mental health and/or suicide within the community. I’m fine with those

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      Yeah, this has been an East Asian thing for over a decade, but I don’t understand why all of a sudden women politicians and CEOs are doing it. Leave trends to the people who are actually liked, this is just gonna ruin it

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    That’s $1,000 per employee laid off. They might have been making $60,000 a year each.

    $30 million is way too much to pay anyone (especially shareholders) but firing the CFO is not a silver bullet.

  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
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    I own a free oracle cloud virtual instance because it was free and better than every other free service. 100% dedicated VI, 4Gbps network bandwidth, 4CPUs at around 2.5GHz, 24GB RAM, and 200GB. All free. And no possible way to ever go over since those are static when I created the instance.

    This is for a personal project that I didn’t want hosted on my home server to expose to the open internet.

    I justify using oracle because I’m technically costing them money with no downsides for me.

    Fuck Oracle’s ownership though.