The Ballad of the Loser Billionaires

10 bambax 2 5/5/2025, 2:58:15 PM slate.com ↗

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ashoeafoot · 2h ago
Its kind of sad what imagination deprived husks the "all the money cheats"reveal. Not just us oligarchs, but among the oil-princes in the emirates and Russia.Also the detachment from logistics, physics and economics . The default transportsolution? Well a limo of course? A train of limos in the sky. Its pathetic. And then they run away to "start fresh" with the same solutions that failed behind the horizon over and over.
alwa · 4h ago
https://archive.is/CLbNR

I’m not really sure what to make of the thesis, but maybe that’s just “a loser” (sans riches) talking?

> But in the meantime, the Trump brigade is testing a genuinely fascinating philosophical problem: Can you hijack a nation’s culture with a crew made up entirely of losers?

Just look at these guys! Never has so much money surrounded so little rizz.

Points include: “Real” bodybuilders mock Jeff Bezos’ physique, Zuckerberg was unable to save Newark’s schools (and the name Facebook isn’t cool), and Elon Musk is “annoying, not funny.”

It feels a little mean to me.