Re: Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Magnus Boman
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 22:09, Patrice Riemens wrote: > > > ... > > Jeff Bezos spent $1.6m and Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi spent $2 million > on personal security, suggesting that while very important, they are not > quite as important as Zuckerberg. The other point to make is that if > they hadn'

Re: Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2019-04-26 02:12, Morlock Elloi wrote: It's an easy answer, just imagine that you've been asked by someone from one of the several African nations with GDP less than $800/year, effectively living from $5 a week: How can you possibly spend $200/week? (for EU dole recipients.) Once you get beyo

Re: Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Iain Boal
“Humanoid"? A "natural lifespan" in the low 30s? There’s a nasty natalism in here, not to mention misanthropy. And spare us the puritan chrematistics. Iain On 25 Apr 2019, at 17:12, Morlock Elloi wrote: It's an easy answer, just imagine that you've been asked by someone from one of the sev

Re: Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's an easy answer, just imagine that you've been asked by someone from one of the several African nations with GDP less than $800/year, effectively living from $5 a week: How can you possibly spend $200/week? (for EU dole recipients.) Once you get beyond bare basics to keep a humanoid alive

Tom Hodgkinson: What do they do with all that money? (The Idler)

2019-04-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
bwo The Idler https://www.idler.co.uk/ Dear Idlers, As you may recall, I am a fan of the Financial Times, even though I don't understand it. One of my favourite FT tropes is "executive pay gets out of hand". Every day I torment myself by reading about the millions American über-capitalist