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Mark Cuban is ‘proud to pay’ $275.9 million in taxes
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Honestly, Mark Cuban seems like kind of a cool guy, for a billionaire. I'm sure he's done nasty shit, it's basically inevitable that even the most morally and ethically conscious person would have to do something bad in order to become a billionaire; however he doesn't come off as being sociopathically greedy like Musk or Bezos.
Cuban made costplusdrugs.com 😃
sad as it is to say, he's probably the most moral/ethical of the bunch atm
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. Definitely adds to the belief that he's probably not a terrible guy irl.
Isn't the Virgin CEO guy a good dude? Or is that just good PR and sunglasses?
Never underestimate the power of sunglasses
Branson? No.
He's the one Shark who is almost a decent person. IIRC, he's the one who ended the policy that people presenting on the show had to give up part of their company no matter if they had an accepted deal or not. He made the very good point that anyone halfway decent at business would be very hesitant to take that offer, and they were losing out on good possibilities because of it.
Still, fuck him. You can't be a billionaire without doing shady shit somewhere.
I really dislike how much he espouses hustle culture. Like, it's crazy to applaud children who are spending every free minute they have on a business idea as if that has no negative impacts on their childhood if they aren't failing school. Or that he won't buy in if the business owner has a day job because entrepreneurs should only be successful if they gamble all of their savings apparently.
Eh, he has set ways of thinking that his life experience tells him is "correct" and no need to question those findings. Kinda gross, but understandable to my mind.
Indeed.
And an often overlooked downside of all the tax loopholes is that asshole billionaires don't pay tax, so they have a competitive advantage against someone like Mark Cuban.
Basically, with billionaires we are evolving them to become nastier with each generation.
It's weird because why would billionaires even need to compete amongst eachother? You don't even need to get close to a billion to exist in what amounts to a personal, post-scarcity paradise.
Because bank accounts are high score counters to these people
pissing contest at whatever yacht club they decided to jet-set to that weekend.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33527472/ex-gm-donnie-nelson-sues-dallas-mavericks-says-was-fired-reporting-sexual-misconduct-team-denies-claim this would be the one knock against Mark Cuban, kind of soured me to him, but I think he tries to be a good guy.
I can basically prove with scratch paper and a pen that any average American consumer is a slaver, environmental terrorist, and imperialist. We’ve all done or supported or ignored bad shit, and actually the worst shit ever.