Weird how all the evil uber rich are outside the states.
Ruby turds
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 10 months ago
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
Our glorious filantropists, their wicked oligarchs.
Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Makes you think doesn’t it.
abfarid@startrek.website 10 months ago
When I was reading that line I could already feel the Hexbear comments coming.
Wasn’t disappointed.Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 10 months ago
CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 months ago
hexbear-specter there’s a specter haunting the lemmyverse.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hexbear moment
FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 10 months ago
All lemm.ee users well know that the inferior Asiatic brainpan could never discern a pile of shit from an ice cream cone.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
apocalypticat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“It’s always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia” 🙄. Or philanthropists in USA. Or all of the above, in any country, including USA.
MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I too found the omission obvious considering that the filthiest examples are right there.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
sitting in front of the largest ruby in the world
Are we the baddies?
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lmao, gotta make it about the US somehow.
Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 9 months ago
I wish being a Communist in the USA made me a billionaire
ooterness@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How is this a science meme?
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ikr this belongs on !atbge@lemmy.world (awful taste but great execution)
Thann@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Devolution is Real!
awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Does this ruby actually exist? There seem to be no references to it online other than OP’s link, and it does not appear on Wikipedia’s list of world’s largest rubies.
Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Not only did Marky mark buy the world’s largest ruby because he’s fucking rich, he also fucking never actually sold it and kept the shit-shaped gem
Not only is he a racist, he’s one of dumbass uber-rich.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
“Ha, that’ll show…me”
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
He’s rich from a long and successful multimedia art career. And I can’t find any source that says he bought it, it seems to still be owned by James Zigras, the mineralogist friend. He just carved it.
Not sure about the racist bit. DEVO definitely utilized racial stereotypes, but the consensus seems to be that it was very clearly satirizing systemic racism. I dunno if Mothersbaugh has any other history of sincere racism, but I can’t find anytime.
axont@hexbear.net 10 months ago
it’s literally mentioned that Mark Mothersbaugh bought the ruby before carving it. It’s supposed to be a joke about the type of person who’d buy such a thing, well look in the mirror. imagine trying to make a mockery of rich people and this is the avenue you do it with
I used to like Devo. I still like their 70s stuff but they’ve never been as subversive as they claim to be.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its quite funny when brics countries are mentioned in bad light as a joke on lemmy.
“B-b-buttttt thE USA DOES BAD THINGS”
WideningGyro@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Ew, reddit is leaking
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
He whipped it good!
paultimate14@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah yes, when I think of people accumulating vast amounts of capital my first thought is also… Communists.
For those wondering, according to Forbes the top richest people are:
I’d also consider the Walton family as a whole. While split up, the often join their money together and are also pretty American.
So… I know these things change over time but it seems really bizarre to list off countries famous for having too-wealthy people without naming America.
Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb. It’s just further contributing to the erosion of the commons.
ashok36@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The richest people in the world aren’t on the richest people in the world list because they own entire countries. Putin is probably the richest single person in the world. Kim Jong Un is up there too.
If you can have literally anything you want within your own borders that’s a lot more than having shares in some company that could lose value overnight.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Putin maybe, Kim-Jong definitely not. Just Meta’s net profit (let well alone revenue) is well over NK’s entire GDP. Even if he literally owned the entire country he wouldn’t be nearly as wealthy as Musk or Bezos.
daltotron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s not really being rich, though. The guys on that list could theoretically buy whatever countries they wanted, hell, they could buy multiple, hell, they could just buy owning stock in every country by way of bribery. If you’re the leader of a single country, it’s as though your money is all invested for you already in that single country. You’re mostly locked down to wherever you are. But the Walton family, owning Walmart, last time I checked the third largest economy in the world, they can extract that money and pivot wherever they want, with basically no borders or limits.
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Let’s be real… he’s exhibiting this in an art museum in NYC. And he’s still working as a TV and film composer.
You suggest the real reason for doing it. So a billionaire can own it and say “see, I’m not one of the bad billionaires, because I’m in on the joke.”
JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 months ago
Jimmy Buffett is dead