#ethical billionaire

[shiresome]

I love the way you draw lex so bad. do u have any lex headcanons question mark….

THANK YOU THATS SO SWEET!! Yes I have one Lex headcanon: he is my best friend forever and ever

[gwydionmisha]

It's an ethics AND a safety issue. Trump is planning to stop crash/safety reporting Musk's cars.

A more graphic explanation of why we need to monitor this. (Shows crashed cars, but not the bodies). It's from that time Tesla did deadly beta testing that killed and injured a bunch of people.

Some of these are mostly focused on the national security implications of Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink, but the conflict of interest over things like Self driving cars matter too. It's a fundamental problem that Trump is basically letting Elon Musk make so many decisions for his own benefit.

[iwatcheditbegin]

I know i’ve said it before. But this discourse about the ethics regarding taylor swift being a billionaire are so disingenuous. She doesn’t have a makeup line, clothing line, brand endorsements.

The bulk of her income is entirely from her own talent as a musician. She has not exploited anyone. She’s also not even close to being a cash billionaire when you look at the numbers it’s like half of that ( bc it’s hard to become a billionaire without shady shit) . Taylor is known to pay her employees well. By percentage what she gives away to charity and compensates her team with is unheard of. She gave 10% of her net worth away in bonuses to everyone who worked on her tour. That’s just what we know of.

I’m not even saying this as a fan, but you cannot look at someone like her and how she moves and compare that to other billionaires and oligarchs.

I’m all for wealthy people paying their fair share. I hate capitalism and the current system but I do think she’s a good example of doing the best to be ethical within the current system

[thorsfavlesbian]

i think it’s really funny that swifties act like taylor swift has like the hardest life and has gone through the greatest struggles known to humankind as if she isn’t a white, cishet, neurotypical, able-bodied billionaire who grew up fortunate and has specifically said before that her mental health has never been bad enough to the point where she needed therapy.

edit: i am aware of her past struggles with an ed. i am currently struggling with an ed and have been for years. i am not any less privileged as a white person just because i have a difficult relationship with food. and neither is she. the ONLY way she could ever experience hardships when it comes to who she is is through her being a woman. which isn’t a special thing. there are literally billions of women around the world. taylor is a BILLIONAIRE who could buy her own island to go cry on if she’s upset over a sexist joke. meanwhile, there are women out there who would do anything to have even a sliver of the privilege that taylor swift has. being a BILLIONAIRE trumps nearly EVERYTHING. you all need to understand that. billionaires are THE most privileged people in the entire world because they could get anything and everything they want. that trumps sexism, that trumps an ed, and this is coming from someone who experiences both.

[kacievvbbbb]

I am very down with the idea that whenever Shanks comes to Visit him on Kuriagina Mihawk uses him like hired muscle

He works him like a dog, Shanks hasn’t even set two feet on the island and Mihawk has handed him a list of all the furniture that needs moving, the light bulbs (he has like 30 chandeliers) that need changing, the rooms that need repainting. Living in the ruins of a castle of a dead kingdom takes work. Could Mihawk do it? No he has a garden to take care off.🙄

Just the idea that Mihawk started a renovation project on his castle while Zoro was there as part of his “training” and Shanks shows up and really Shanks you’re just gonna stand there while the kid does all that heavy lifting Mihawk says as he sips his glass of wine.

Shanks of course is happy to do it. Benn, who he recruits cause there’s just somethings a one armed man shouldn’t do on his own, is of course disgruntled that he has once again been dragged into their weird foreplay.

Perona of course goes “I’m just a girl” 🥺. And of course when Mihawk is unmoved by this She huff and sets to tricking Zoro to do her share of the tasks as well.

She then proceeds to become the most heinous, unethical, inhumane work site manager to ever exist. All while wearing a glittery construction vest and bedazzled hard hat

[evermoredeluxe]

gonna be harsh for a minute here. i can’t imagine what it would’ve been like for taylor to be on the eras tour, and instead of being celebrated, hearing about how she is some evil person for achieving these amazing things. ofc the breakup led to A Lot of Stuff, but staying would’ve been so damaging too. just thinking about how successful red tv/midnights were, but she was still feeling so down and felt the need to pull back and protect her relationship by not being “Too Big.” just glad that she is in a good place both professionally and personally and is supported instead of being put down.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

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[shiresome]

LITERALLY UNWATCHABLE

[casualfoxwitch]

[eaglerayys]

Brucie Wayne is one of my favourite pieces of fanon because what it essentially boils down to is that very real truth that we as a society would not be remotely surprised to learn that any of those fuckass tech billionaires had decided to take crime into their own hands but would just laugh it off if you said the same about Paris Hilton

[thedupshadove]

Okay concept. Bruce Wayne becomes the target of the Leverage crew...only thanks to his Nebulous Contacts, he's heard of these people, and recognizes what's happening halfway through the con.

Since being targeted by the Leverage crew means that you're the asshole, his response is to pull them aside and be like "Please tell me how I've been the asshole and how I can fix it."

I'm not sure yet whether the inciting wrong against the client-of-the-week is something he's being wrongly blamed for, something his subordinates did without his knowledge, something he let happen through passive carelessness, or something he genuinely did on purpose (and might take some convincing to even see as wrong) but I think any of those options have potential.

[timetravellingkitty]

I see a lot of indian liberals chide the ambanis for spending way too much money on their son's wedding and instead prop up ratan tata as a "good" billionaire, when his wealth was built on adivasi brutalisation.

[snowbazzledestielshipper]

I don’t think the billionaires are building their fortresses for the apocalypse, I think they’re actually building them for the revolution that we’re on the doorstep of.

[huldrabitch]

Everytime I see anything about ozempics I think about the superior iron man comic where evil capitalist Tony releases extremis disguised as an app to make people healthy/beautiful, only to add a 100 dollars subscription fee per day making him even richer and also turning millions of people addicts desperate for money to keep the app.

[flying-cat]

The richest man on Earth is, presumably, from what we have seen thus far, going to be an active part of our government or influential to important decisions and discussions at least. I think this is definitely where we start worrying guys!