Doesn’t matter what you are paid. You can be making a billions or $12/hr, you are still profiting off unethical behavior of others.

She allegedly made her first billion in 2005. It literally couldn’t have been from book sales.

Why not? The first Harry Potter novel was released in 1997. By 2005, 8 years later, she has release 6 of the 7 Harry Potter books.

Thousands of underpaid workers in publishing offices, marketers, delivery drivers, and bookstore workers.

Really? By that standard, everyone is unethical. I’m quite sure if I dig deep enough I can find something in your job’s supply chain that’s can be considered “unethical” and using your guilt by association logic, you are an unethical person too.

You can’t make a billion dollars honestly

Again, you have no justification for this assertion.

is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don’t know that you can make that kind of hard statement

Thank you. Exactly my point. Best not to make such statements that you can’t back up and are of questionable soundness.

quality of answers only drops off when prompts are poorly crafted

And people think GPT4 is approaching AGI …

Not to mention the vulnerability to “poisoning” if trained on the very output it creates.

Fair enough. What about J K Rowling? (Her politics notwithstanding as it has nothing to do with how she made her fortune.)

You think they worked an order of magnitude more?

Income has never correlated with effort. People are paid based on supply and demand.

Also not to defend the scumbag that is Musk but like many billionaires, a lot of his wealth is based on “what people think” - specifically, what people think of his companies and how much they are willing to part with for its shares.

It just says one amount you can make honestly and one amount you can’t. The implication is that the outer limit of what you can make honestly is somewhere in between.

So what is the amount. How do you justify it - other than “because I said so”?

I really want to hear how people justify why they think Michael Jordan has made his billions unethically.

There’s an old saying, you can become a millionaire through honesty, integrity, and hard work, but you can’t become a billionaire.

IMHO the saying is nonsense. Why do we draw the magic line at $999,999,999.99 USD? This there something special about that number with regards to the USD?

Edit: Guess the redditors are here. More interested in ideology than discussion. All I did was ask for the justification behind the idea that you can’t become a billionaire “through honesty, integrity, and hard work”.

It’s ridiculous someone can assert such a claim with zero justification and if you dare question it, you get downvoted.

It’s only a matter of time I guess that this place becomes the new Reddit. September came quick.

This needs to happen to Monster Energy drink (who is suing everyone who uses the term “monster”) and Bethesda (who got lawsuit shot with the term “scroll”).

Seem pretty easy to work around, just call it extension of the earlier service. You just added a new feature.

Consoles rely on 3rd party support to be successful. MS just bought out one of the largest 3rd party publishers and will no doubt use its control over it to deny/compromise support to its competitors. This is much larger than you think. To make it worse there is no real counter play for its competitors who aren’t as flushed with cash as they are.

Positions change between console generations quite easily. Nintendo and Sega were battling for the crown in one generation, in the next they were far behind a newcomer. Sony absolutely dominated with the PS2 but the PS3 was dead even with the 360 the following generation.

MS is in 3rd place because they did next to nothing this generation to get Xbox higher in the rankings except their current move of trying to buy their way into dominance.

This is a purchase that will give MS a long term advantage. None of their competitors can really match this move because they aren’t worth 2.47 trillion USD. By allowing MS to do this the courts are signing to the world that smaller companies shouldn’t even bother competing because they can never outspend MS’s war chest.

Min account age / min karma are horrible for the new user experience though.

You sign up to say something only to find out you can’t.