Hmm, are they finally hiring internationally? Americans are historically funny about that.

Wait, you earn more to not commute?

If I ever was in a room with him, I’d ask if he thinks there’s ever a situation where a comedian should have priorities beyond getting a laugh. He seems to operate on the assumption it’s a no, and I want to hear him openly say that, or else have the opportunity to call him out.

Hmm, I wonder how often it would generate a false positive and force someone to reword something innocuous. My guess is that it would be relatively rare.

Dope. Put garbage language where it belongs.

I mean, given that it’s all speculation that’s not really a mistake. I just thought it might be good to mention.

I really don’t think so. If you went back in time and bought a bunch of Apple stock you too could be a billionaire, no obviously antisocial behavior required.

There are examples of billionaires that were helped along the way by being an asshole, and it might improve your chances slightly, but it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.

That’s a given and the fact that most megarich people don’t recognize this feeds back into them being assholes.

Unambiguously agree. They actually prefer being called evil to being called lucky.

East Asia and it’s Chinese-derived alphabets being the big exception. The New World would be too, if it weren’t for barbarians in upturned helmets burning all the codices. I suppose Canada’s North is pretty dependent on indigenous syllabics, which were invented whole-cloth in the modern era.

I was referring to the Latin as per OP, though. And even then “used to” is doing a lot of the work, thanks to the Islamic empire conquering the Middle East and North Africa and converting it to Arabic. And maybe Greek prevailing in the East, but I’m guessing it would be hard to put an end date on Latin in the Byzantine empire.

Heroes have a way of always disappointing. There’s people like Malcom X, John Brown or Thomas Paine who I’d say were the good guys of their time, but I really try not to lionise them beyond the flawed humans they were.

Most people stop making more when they have enough.

I can’t think of a single person like that.

Nah, it’s all a lottery. If being an asshole was enough there’d be way more rich people.

True, but I wouldn’t really hold the people that buy in responsible for each other’s misery. They’re doing it to themselves just as much.

Even in a complex system, though, if something doesn’t happen continuously it’s bound to have characteristic conditions that precede it. Describing it as cause and effect is a function of language, then.

Inb4 somebody calls you a bourgeoisie parasite or something, since this is Lemmy.

At least on my behalf, thanks for commenting.

Yup.

OPs point stands, though, because we could still do that without Gates, and for every Gates there’s a Musk that does evil and a ton of Arnaults and Bezos’s that just spend it on whatever.

Some of the royal families in the Gulf are also thought to be trillionaires.

Probably neither. As far as I can tell rich people are completely unremarkable. Some use their money for good, some for evil (and the media loves that) while most just buy tons of stupid shit and enjoy the good life.

I guess the media thing is the real answer. You don’t hear much about Bernard Arnault because he’s boring, while Musk is walking clickbait.

They’re trained on both, and the kitchen sink.

I doubt it. It’s the sort of thing that would be prone to survivorship bias. If someone dies at an opportune moment, it makes a nice story and is repeated. If someone dies randomly in spite of something they’re looking forward to, it tends not to get mentioned.

That being said, the placebo effect is real, so it’s not impossible.

Yeah, their momentum is no joke. This may accelerate the shift towards Linux somewhat.

Kind of the same story for the Fediverse.

I’ve actually heard mostly positive nostalgia for Vista recently. I think it might have been a situation where they released earlier than they should have, and so only the later versions were worthy.

But also, do you even Linux, bro?

Edit: Other comments are saying it just had really high hardware requirements.