r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 18d ago

Society Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

https://fortune.com/article/how-much-has-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-spent-to-oppose-california-billionaire-tax-102-million-owe-13-billion-if-loses/
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u/JayBeeGooner 18d ago

And he’ll still be filthy rich and have more money than he could ever spend. i hate these greedy psychopaths.

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u/Crim91 18d ago

The existence of these psychopaths is a threat to our lives.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 17d ago

At this point not just our lives in the general sense of a few people are at risk, but legitimately the survival of our species and while unlikely possibly life. We have no framework to guess if the math behind life existing is reasonable, so we MAY be the only life in the universe, and we're... doing what now?

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u/funkymonk248 17d ago

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is one of the world's largest individual philanthropists, with lifetime giving exceeding $3.9 billion, heavily focused on central nervous system (CNS) conditions and climate change initiatives.

What have you done lately?

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u/twenty-fifth-time-ba 17d ago

I just hate them because they’re rich and I am not.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 17d ago

So you'd be fine if you were also rich, but fuck the rest of us? You're just as bad as they are, if not worse because you support them for no gain of your own.

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u/twenty-fifth-time-ba 17d ago

If I was rich I would share all my riches with the poor.

After which I would become not rich, so I could go back to hating the rich because they’re rich and I am not.