[drweevil]

>“I don’t think anyone has hired more people or given more money or supported San Francisco more than I have,” Mr. Benioff said.

So that entitles you to call for an invasion of the city?

> Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land.

An antisocial, entitled oligarch. Just what we need. I think at this point it's fair to say we don't really live in a democracy. The people with money can do whatever they please, while whatever value they return to society is debatable at best (Salesforce??? wtf). This system is well and truly broken.

[JuniperMesos]

There is no relationship between a rich guy being able to buy numerous parcels of land on Hawaii and live there, and whether the constitutional order of the country constitutes a democracy or not. These facts just have nothing at all to do with each other. Democracies don't in general ban rich people from buying land and living places, and rich people can buy land and live places under non-democratic political systems too.

I have only used Salesforce briefly, and over a decade ago, and I honestly wasn't impressed. But there are all sorts of products made by companies that I personally don't like or have no use for, and this also has extremely little relationship with whether other people find them useful enough to pay for. If you have an argument that Salesforce the company is doing something untoward to make money, then make that argument. But I have no reason to think that Salesforce isn't doing the same thing that many other successful companies have done, which is selling a product that many people want, and earning a lot of money for their shareholders by doing so. None of this seems like a broken system to me.

[burnt-resistor]

Each billionaire signals policy failure. Our survival depends upon redistributing their legitimized theft and removing them from the seats of power before they kill us all with unnecessary world wars, genocide, famine, climate catastrophes, or substandard medical care. It's not hyperbolic or bold at this point, from the mountain of evidence against them, that they're a clear and present danger. Half of them are pedos and more are rapists. Countering aristocracy is a perpetual struggle that must be won and vigilantly guarded. The status quo and apathy results in the train going off a cliff, perhaps sooner than many think. Speeding it up as accelerationists desire is terroristically omnicidal.

[JuniperMesos]

The existence of billionaires does not signal policy failure. Billionaires were not responsible for any world wars, genocides, famine, climate catastrophes, or substandard medical care; these are all ancient human ills, and indeed the same policies that lead to the existence of billionaires have also lead to the average human being on the face of the earth being less likely to die painfully from any of these things, compared to the vast majority of human history.