will nobody think of the single digit billionaires?

• Pity the poor billionaires – demands for higher taxes must feel hurtful | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

this is about as snarky, but well placed as one would expect from the guardian. i’m increasingly of the firmly held opinion that billionaires can be tedious AF and we vastly overestimate their intelligence and wildly underestimate their luck. after the first $10-100M you should probably be thinking a little harder about how to help your fellow man.

• Rich Guy Quote Journalism - this was an interestig digression that landed in my reading queue at almost the same time.

  if you’re looking for the tl;dr - rich dude’s make their own news. which is every bit as tedious and soul sucking as it sounds. this is yet another reason that people hate the media. which, co-incidentally, is dominantly owned by rich dudes who spout off. it’s stupid the whole way down …