And you're asking people in lemmy this?
It's like asking your highschool friends if models make good money
Where should I ask then?
Financial advisors for the Uber rich. I remember hearing an interview of one on..radio lab or this American life or.. Something...I can't remember it was years ago, but anyway she described what it was like. They don't use passports, they would call her to find bracelets they lost in taxis, it didn't sound like they were working at all. I don't remember if she went into their work schedule, but financial advisors are treated like baby sitters, or at least she was.
I thought that might be a good place to start, I'm sure some of them have written books about it, or done more interviews.
I would suspect never.
Either they are obsessed with their "work" and do it far more than that, or they do nothing.
Welcome to a day in the life of a billionaire. You'll need to get up nice and early for a personalised yoga routine devised by your trainer, and then it's straight out of the house to work. You've got breakfast scheduled with a CEO, and you're going to spend an hour objectifying women with him before heading into the office. Quick hello, report from your executive team, and now it's time for a power brunch with the man who sources child slaves for you to have sex with. Private jet flight to the next city over for lunch, you have a corrupt mayor to bribe so the minimum wage won't go up. Then it's time to fly back and spend an hour in your office looking important. You ended up sleeping with your secretary instead of getting anything done, but hey, we can't all be faithful to our wives. Now that it's 2pm, you've got to go play golf with your "professional contacts". You refer to your caddy with a racial slur. At 4pm, you go back to the office for the last time today, where your son is waiting for you. It's very hard educating a young man on how to inherit a fortune 500 company that runs itself. You spend most of the next hour telling him about golf. At 5pm, finally get in your limousine to go home. You've been working all day, and you're beat. You praise yourself for your work ethic, and wonder if the single day you work next week is going to be as hard.
At which part of the day do you sit around and shitpost alt right propaganda on Twitter for hours?
You write all of that in the middle of the night to distract yourself from the guilt which robs you of your sleep, before your heavy medication kicks in. You give it to your social media staff in the morning to post throughout the day.
Sounds exhausting 😅
they don't work, they are the real bums doing nothing all day, living with the profits of OUR (the working class) hard work.
They don't work and are the reason why the workers don't have a good life.
What are you basing that on? Here's a list - most are workaholics.
Hard disagree. Proud of you for posting a list of richest people though. Here I have a link too https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
What are you disagreeing with?
And I in no way was saying that the wealth inequity wasn't absurd.
That most are workaholics. I do not agree with that. Like the general premise of the comment you posted is what I disagree with I guess?
Oh, well, that's pretty well documented. Most of those guys started companies and worked giant amounts of time.
I mean, literally the first person listed is Elon Musk. If you think he's a hard worker who only got there through grinding then I have a bridge to sell you.
You're going to take a single counter example and throw out everything else? I also mentioned there are different types, and some are like Christy Walton, who haven't worked at all. But neither of those examples means that there aren't a bunch of workaholics on the list.
Look, at least most of us agree that the wealth inequality is grotesque, but I'm not sure why you have a hard time with the concept that a lot of people get rich by focusing on making money and working very hard at it. I have a hard time with the concept of a CEO making orders of magnitude more than the average worker's salary, but that doesn't mean they don't work a lot.
Ah yes, a single counter example, also the person who leads the list. And I disagree, having people do presentations and going "ah yes, very good" isn't a fucking job. These people don't work.
There are how many people on that list, and you're picking one of them? What about Gates, who was the top four a long time? Dell? Buffet?
You have a preconceived notion, and you're sticking to it, regardless of data.
Gates is a predatory businessman who built an empire on the backs of others. Buffet is a dragon who refuses to invest in progress (https://www.bankrate.com/investing/warren-buffett-stocks-berkshire-hathaway-portfolio-13f-filing/) and Dell made it on the back of shitty business practices.
I didn't say any of these guys were gems of humanity - what does any of what you're saying have to do with the fact that they were all workaholics?
Just look at the industrial amounts of bullshit spewing from Elon Musk's Twitter feed.
Clearly the answer is no.
I guess that would depend in what industry they're working or if they're making money from financial investments exclusively.
I don't know, how does your butthole feel rn
Nobody becomes billionaire by working. You become a billionaire by exploiting others work.
Definitely not 9-5, M-F. Most billionaires inherited substantial wealth to begin with. But executives, in general, don’t have “hours” in the same way as rank and file workers. It’s more about knowledge and meetings — well, hopefully knowledge — so you might have an 11am meeting, a 2pm call, and then a 7pm dinner with a potential investor or whatever. You don’t really “work” in between those obligations unless it’s a small company (where you probably aren’t a billionaire anyway). At most, you need to make a board report or PowerPoint for a presentation or something like that.
Billionaires who just own things and aren’t in the C-suite don’t work much at all. Even if you’re on some boards, it’s not much in terms of actual obligations. There’s definitely tasks to do but it’s also definitely not a job. So, a bit like being a landlord.
No they do not. But they do emit about 1 million times more CO2 than the average person
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