Which Billionaire is/was the biggest asshole?

Who is/was the biggest asshole billionaire CEO? (controversies in brackets)

  • Mark Zuckerberg (privacy scandals, corruption)

    Votes: 13 22.0%
  • Steve Jobs (cold, uncaring, douche)

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • Jeff Bezos (exploiting workers, terrible work conditions)

    Votes: 12 20.3%
  • Bill Gates (monopoly with Microsoft)

    Votes: 12 20.3%
  • Elon Musk (provocative tweets)

    Votes: 13 22.0%
  • Trump (asshole/racist/idiot)

    Votes: 33 55.9%

  • Total voters
    59

Greytop19

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All of them are f***ing a..holes.
They did not become billionaires by being kind, sympathetic and generous.
They are blood suckers
 
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Insidious Von

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Robert De Niro is richer than Donald Trump, unlike The King of Kings the tax paying public has never bailed him out.

Billionaires who fund MAGA are the largest assholes. Like Paulie Walnuts, they need to take a wicked shit.

 

KDK13

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On the list all self made -respect- except DJT who inherited his $.

However, billionaires seem to forget being brilliant in one area does not make you brilliant everywhere.
Also, billionaires get little push back from closest advisors so they end up being weird and believing some hideous nonsense.
 
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stinkynuts

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On the list all self made -respect- except DJT who inherited his $.

However, billionaires seem to forget being brilliant in one area does not make you brilliant everywhere.
Also, billionaires get little push back from closest advisors so they end up being weird and believing some hideous nonsense.
There are very few exceptions. Warrent Buffet is the most modest and humble person, especially given his wealth. But money seems to go to people's heads, and they think they are superior and can get away with anything.
 
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stinkynuts

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Surprised there aren't many votes for Steve Jobs. He was a horrible human being, the way he treated his wives and daughter, as well as employees. He was a complete asshole.

He berated and humiliated employees, calling them worthless and stupid. He showed no interest in his daughter, not even acknowledging she was his. She and her mother struggled on welfare, while he was a billionaire.

His adoptive parents loved him very much. When they dropped him off at college, he didn't even say good bye, he just left very coldly. He even screwed over his partner Steve Wozniak by not paying him as promised.

Nobody liked him, he was a toxic human being.

 
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KDK13

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There are very few exceptions. Warrent Buffet is the most modest and humble person, especially given his wealth. But money seems to go to people's heads, and they think they are superior and can get away with anything.
I'll agree with that.
 

silentkisser

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On the list all self made -respect- except DJT who inherited his $.

However, billionaires seem to forget being brilliant in one area does not make you brilliant everywhere.
Also, billionaires get little push back from closest advisors so they end up being weird and believing some hideous nonsense.
What do you mean by "self-made"? Virtually all these people were from upper middle-class to wealthy families. Bill Gates' mom convinced IBM to adopt DOS, while his dad was big deal lawyer. Zuckerberg's parents were both doctors, while Musk's family owned a apartheid era emerald mine to build a family fortune. Jobs and Bezos...well, you can say they built up tremendous success from meagre beginnings. Bezos got into finance and was making good money before he launched Amazon.
 

silentkisser

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George Soros should be on the list too.
I'm very curious as to why you think Soros should be on this list? The hard right despise him for donating money to liberal causes, but have no issue with the Koch brothers doing the same thing (even worse) to neo-con causes...

So, there are a lot of lies about Soros, saying he worked with or for the Nazis in Hungry, or that he pays protesters. All of it is bullshit. Is there an actual reason beyond the conspiracy theories?
 
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KDK13

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What do you mean by "self-made"? Virtually all these people were from upper middle-class to wealthy families. Bill Gates' mom convinced IBM to adopt DOS, while his dad was big deal lawyer. Zuckerberg's parents were both doctors, while Musk's family owned a apartheid era emerald mine to build a family fortune. Jobs and Bezos...well, you can say they built up tremendous success from meagre beginnings. Bezos got into finance and was making good money before he launched Amazon.
They all formed their own businesses. Doesn't mean they weren't children of privilege. But they created their own companies and made a fortune. That's my definition. They created their own companies and made a shit-ton of $$$...
 

silentkisser

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They all formed their own businesses. Doesn't mean they weren't children of privilege. But they created their own companies and made a fortune. That's my definition. They created their own companies and made a shit-ton of $$$...
True. But, it can be argued they had significant advantages over the vast majority of the population. Or great connections that helped grease the wheels to their fortunes. I'm not saying they didn't provide leadership or had vision, but there are many people who have that but not the $$$ or connections to get a venture off the ground.
 
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barnacler

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Time to add a woman: Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean:


"And what a Queen of Mean she was. Leona Helmsley, who married hotel mogul Harry Helmsley in 1972, was the epitome of the “greed is good” ’80s, living high while abusing the staff.

As for paying her fair share?

“We don’t pay taxes,” a housekeeper once heard her say. “Only the little people pay taxes.
 
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y2kmark

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Trump is no billionaire, asshole definitely but not a billionaire. He's only a millionaire because he was given a billion dollars and hasn't quite managed to lose it all yet.
He still leads the poll because he has billionaire enablers who were not on the list, so it's a proxy thing. I'd vote for team Trump on that basis....
 
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