The Ballad of the Loser Billionaires

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-billionaire-losers-maga.html

by bambax • 1 year ago

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alwa• 1 year 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.

bigbadfeline• 1 year ago

It's a slate of hand (sic) to undermine their own presumptive intent.

ashoeafoot• 1 year 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.

The Ballad of the Loser Billionaires

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