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Tell HN: Billionaires have to suffer same web as us

I find it pretty satisfying that they are in same boat as us.

No they don't. Being a billionaire means you have an assistant to organise flights, book appointments, call business contacts. A billionaire doesn't ever need to look at the internet, beyond email, news, and text messages.

Gotta be a billionaire to know for sure.

What fantasy land is everyone living in where billionaires are either uninterested in browsing the internet, or have their twin butlers Jeeves and Brimbly there to click the right & left mouse buttons for them? Billionaires are certainly interested in the latest news and world events, and I doubt they all just tune in to Fox News.

They can have assistants that suffer thought the web for them. Their emails are of course proxied through an assistant, but they also never need to research what to buy, or figure out plans for when traveling.

Yes, and they also probably click “accept” to any old terms of service. I wonder if you could slip in some outlandish terms and bind these billionaires to them the way their services do to us.

Haha not to be political but why do people hate billionaires so much

Can't answer for others but for me it's because I'd hate any hoarder of essential resources.

stocks are an essential resource?

Money is not an essential resource it’s just a number on a computer screen. There are billionaires that live a very modest life and maybe even less luxurious than some of the middle class.

I think you should learn more about Warren Buffet. He has pledged to donate 99% of his net worth. In fact if he hadn’t started donating a while back he would be the world’s richest man today. Except for his private jet he has never spent much.

I was going to say...

It’s hard to hate a man that lives in a one story house and drives a beater just because he has money.

It's impossible to separate politics from the matter. Billionaires are able to exist as they do because of political decisions. They symbolize and are physical manifestations of broader inequities which many people suffer through in their day to day lives. The amazon drivers and warehouse workers who are forced to pee in a bottles know that their employer jeff Bezos is one of the richest people on the planet.

Because anyone who can hoard obscene wealth without deploying a significant portion of it to help their fellow humans is worthy of hatred in my book.

They are the winners in a corrupt game, and it's easier to hate the player than the game.

Actually, I asked this because I came to realize that even supposedly rich people have to put up with same bad browsers/websites that we have to. I am not aware of any search engines/browsers which can weed out bad websites.

And for some, the reason they're billionaires is because they constructed this boat. They don't mind.

Do they not? Did I not read in some book about Bill Gates that when stuff did not properly work or was not immediately clear under Windows for him he would blow a fuse? He was the richest or one of the richest people at that time already. I can imagine this happens to Zuckerberg etc too when they get stuck in their own horror show of ads and evil ux.

I'm pretty sure they do less "entertainment" than the average user.

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