• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It all sounds well and good but I have a hard time swallowing any Billionaire advocating for ethics.

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      They’re all pretty shitty, but Cuban is at least one of the less shitty ones. His work on reduced cost pharmaceuticals has been life-changing for some people, and is a really nice break from big pharma constantly trying to fuck you as hard as they can.

      Yeah he’s probably dying in the revolution, but towards the end. Assholes like Musk or Shkreli are far, far worse.

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      Compared to the other Uber wealthy, he at least seems to have some sort of a code of ethics from what i can see, which is obviously limited. He’s still in it to make money (obviously), but his actions seem to suggest that he won’t go to the extreme of hurting everyone else just for money.

      I started liking Mark more when he opened cost plus drugs. It’s a pretty decent endeavor to try to reduce pharmaceutical costs for the consumer

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      I wonder if there’s any value to considering the point he makes on its own merits.

      And billionaires are also bad.

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      He isn’t the most conservative of billionaires, but hell yes he’s a greeeeedy fuck face.

      Has helped folks a bit tho. And profited

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          Businesses can’t make a profit without exploiting their workers.

          Literally false, even using your absurd definition of “exploit”. If workers were an overall source of profit, businesses would never downsize–by your logic, since every worker creates more value than they’re getting paid, laying anyone off would be equivalent to throwing money down the toilet.

          But in the real world, downsizing happens all the time. And in the real world, labor is a cost, not a source of profit.

          You can really tell when someone has no experience running a business. I’d love to see you try to open and run a small restaurant for longer than a year with this mindset, lmao.