It is wonderful to see that not all businesspeople are cowards.
Virgin's Richard Branson:
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Awesome. But—I thought he died in a balloon crash or something. Shows what I know.
@randahl He's not a coward but he's still a dick
Brandon should do this but with lotsa billboards, myltiple websites, donations to political orgs, until he is lower class.
I mean we fucking are.
Just making a post is something idiots like I do.
Great good for you. Its a little cringe.
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Okay, that's good to hear, so we'll eat him last then!
@randahl @briankrebs One critical difference between Branson and the US billionaire oligarchy: Branson doesn’t live there. After Virgin Galactic cratered, his business ventures in the USA are a minority of his activities. So Trump doesn’t have him by the short-and-curlies.
(There are plenty of things to criticize, as with almost every billionaire, but he seems to despise fascism and religious fundamentalism.)
@cstross @randahl @briankrebs Also Branson’s businesses are at direct risk from any expansion of Russia’s war.
@cstross @randahl @briankrebs The real test is how much Virgin Group de-risks its exposure to US-based IT and financial platforms. (The Trump admin basically has root on a lot of EU and UK companies, and CEOs are more complacent about this than makes sense)
@randahl Branson could sell everything and keep a hundred million bucks to live comfortably on for the rest of his life and fund Ukraine building about 50,000 drones.
How we say that in German: “Tja!…”
@randahl I would also love it if British people would stop using Americanisms. "Step up to the plate" is a baseball metaphor.
@randahl Please be gentle penetrating Virgin's reasoning. It's as precious as a newborn 99% agency.
Remove the .01% from power.
@randahl I'm always amused to hear people talking about billionaires as if they were a special sub species of human. A billionaire is only a human turns into given great financial success: an a**hole. It doesn't matter how you get there the perception is always:
- it was all you
- you of all people deserved it
- you're better than the rest for it
Its a human thing. A lot of them started as decent people. They all turn eventually. It's just a matter of time and circumstances.
@randahl Then again, I must say, from his record, I wouldn't trust him. And since when has there been a 'Free world', anyway? The US has always been a colonialist, interventionist, fascist-supporting, money above ALL ELSE, state (It learnt well from the UK, and then added some). Freedom to do what the Americans want, I suppose...
@randahl From Branson, not something you would hear from the current tech celebrities:
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
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Through his work, my brother came across Musk and Branson, this was over 10 years ago. He described one as egotistical (and some expletives) and the other as a listener work didn't impose his ego.
@randahl can we not? what's with this 2016-tier Facebook Democratic Party propaganda?