@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-11-05 16:05:23
Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/billie-eilish-billionaires-super-rich?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Oth…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 04:15:52
America's Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/04/americas-dumbest-billionaires-fail-to-stop-zohran-mamdani/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p179#a251104p179
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 01:47:26
Tech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-04 10:41:51
No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-04 07:05:28
Melinda French Gates Slams Billionaires Who Aren't Giving Away Enough - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/melinda-french-gates-slams-billionaires-not-donating-enough-giving-pledge-2025-12
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-03 22:32:57
I've spent enough time in Florida to know that it is a horrible place to live except during a few winter months (and even then, Florida is always a social and cultural nightmare.). So I would guess that these people have several "homes".
However, I would suspect that there are people out there who might consider this kind of concentration of $billionaires as a convenient kind of "targeting coordinates".
'‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-05 04:21:58
I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-04 12:46:02
The Billionaire Behind Trump's Deal for Universities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p17#a251004p17
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-05 14:44:50
A gathering with reporters took place in the Oval Office last month
as Trump ordered a crackdown on “leftwing terrorism”
and threatened to investigate and prosecute those who financially support it.
“If you look at Soros, he’s at the top of everything,” the US president said.
There is no evidence linking George Soros,
a 95-year-old billionaire who has supported democratic causes around the world,
or Reid Hoffman,
who helped start PayPal and the netwo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 15:55:59
'There is no Mamdani effect': Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/04/mamdani-effect-new-york-city-real-estate-manhattan-luxury-millionaires-billionaires/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p45#a251205p45