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The Austrian heiress giving away her fortune (abc.net.au)
9 points by defrost 31 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Good, give it ten years and she'll be some nobody, with only news articles from 10 years ago to feed her ego.

If they'd wanted the money pissed away on performative altruism they'd have done that in the will by trust.

Way to put up a middle finger to those who worked hard to build it all and wanted you to inherit it


"Those who worked hard" included Fritz Fischer, the developers of Agent Orange, and other fun chemicals and applications.

I'm not sure a decendant born in 1992 was a primary motivation for them in the work that they did.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Fischer_(medical_doctor)


No extreme wealth has ever been made by "working hard", it was always by exploiting people.

The american dream is a lie they tell you to keep you playing this rigged game.


Yes yes workers of the world unit yada yada 100 million dead from communism isn't enough let's do it again yada yada.

Of course somehow only the person with capital exploits the person with labour, never other way. I "exploit" the taxi driver when I use the capital in my wallet to pay for his labor, but he doesn't equally exploit me somehow.

And of course it's impossible for workers to start their own businesses and become "exploiters" themselves, because... some Chomsky shit or whatever




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