aral,
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Stop anthropomorphising billionaires.

brie,

@aral I have probably quoted it before, but it nicely fits my experiences:

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human”

(William Gibson, Count Zero)

aral,
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@brie Haha, nice :)

tankgrrl,
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@aral But they look so human in their slightly-too-tight suit coats and weird pointy shoes.

PommesRotWeiss,
lpah4all,

@aral That's brilliant. Wisdom says, "They are like the animals, only worse" and, while true for most human beings (as evidenced by how the world it becoming), it is true in spades for those folks.

morph,
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@aral I like the term 'antropomorphising'. :)

prachisrivas,
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@aral This made me genuinely laugh.

aral,
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@prachisrivas We aim to please :)

williampietri,
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@aral It reminds me of the classic "You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

jaycee,
@jaycee@toot.community avatar

@aral all billionaires are bastards. It’s quite simple really. It’s a class of ‘person’ that should not actually exist in a fair world.

si_irini,
@si_irini@mastodon.social avatar

@aral

They are human..by definition...

The bigger evil is the people who don't have a problem with walking over corpses, namely those who are in the middle of us.

Billionaires are just a few...
Too many, actually.

The other unscrupulous... are millions...

SebiPanther,

@aral Is that a appropriate representation of a billionaire asshole? https://www.f-list.net/c/elon%20musk/ //cc @cheetah_spottycat

dpnash,

@aral I've found it helps to (both physically and mentally) s/billionaire/oligarch whenever possible.

CrowGlittering5133,

@aral Are you calling for us to view the ones as McOdörtjävelar?/genq

lizstl13,

@aral Stop anthropomorphizing Republicans.

techcafe,

@aral Billionaires should not exist. We don't need them, but they need us.

CrypticMirror,
@CrypticMirror@mstdn.social avatar

@aral If there is such a thing as a Lovecraftian entity that is inexplicable and horrifying to humanity, it is a billionaire. It is a thing of greed and cruelty in a human shaped suit.

CrowGlittering5133,

@CrypticMirror @aral "Lovecraftian" ... that's a trope on TVTropes called EldritchAbomination. This is not real as such, it's best taken figuratively.

Anikka_Duka,

@aral But they are humans. They remind us if we have a billionaire dollars we will probably be like them with a huge ego and probably doesn't understand what it means to loose a job, worry about paying medical bills, etc.

PeteHall,

@aral
So you are implying Musk is not human? Okay.

AndrewMettier,
@AndrewMettier@mastodon.social avatar

@aral 🤣

Lightrider,
cynblogger,
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@aral
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Well done!

rubenfrias,

@aral I almost lose my tounge trying to pronunce the second word.

cynicalWithAnS,

@aral the only reason mark zuckerberg would want so much personal information from meta users is so he could convince others he's not a robot, so I'm inclined to believe other billionaires aren't human either

liancehanratty,

@aral I’m presenting anyone an investment opportunity that they will find very interesting… Ask for my contact info to learn how it works,Anyone?

Moriarty,

@aral I agree, we need to stop adding human traits to them.

robcornelius,

@aral Everyone knows they are shape shifting lizards after all

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