Comment by breadsmasher@lemmy.world on A conservative billionaire had some things to say

The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

Fuck off, cuban. youre one of them

The only way to become a billionaire is to solely work in your own best interest, and steal the value produced by the labour of your employees.

How exactly did Cuban do that? All he did was be on the winning end of an incredibly bad transaction by Yahoo, and parlayed that into being on TV a lot.

Do you think he just magicked up an investment? He built a company bought by yahoo. How do you think he created the company broadcast up to that point? By himself? Or did he perhaps have employees who did the hard work?

Building the company isn’t what made him a billionaire. Yahoo grossly overpaying for it is what made him a billionaire.

And who profited, disproportionately, from the company’s acquisition by Yahoo? The employees who worked to build it into what it was?

Did they get their fair share of that ‘grossly overpaying’ by Yahoo?

They didn’t? <Shocked Pikachu>

Did they get their fair share of that ‘grossly overpaying’ by Yahoo?

If they owned shares, yes. If they didn’t, then why should they? The owners of the company sold the company at a massively overinflated valuation, so the shares were “worth” a lot of money. This really isn’t a complicated situation.

If they didn’t, then why should they?

Because they did all the work!

Because the only ethical kind of company is a worker-owned co-op. It should not have been possible for employees to not own shares, but it was, and that’s bad.

I sort of agree with you that you can only become a billionaire by stealing someone else’s money, but in this case I think your argument is kind of bad.

If Yahoo overpaid, it’s not the employees of his own company that Cuban took the money from, but rather indirectly from Yahoo’s employees (former and current up to that point).

I also have to say, as far as ethics goes, there is enough indirection there that unless you were a dyed in the wool communist you would have problems finding fault with it. The shell game sufficiently blurred where the capital originally came from and it looks more like winning the lottery than exploiting your employees to the people receiving the big paychecks.

Similar things can be said about venture capital recipients. They get money, and obviously it’s money that the people who gave it to them did not do sufficient work for them to have gotten it themselves, but the source of that money is so convoluted that it might as well be gambling profits.

And those employees also made a shitload of money. GTFO with this communist agenda propaganda

Employees made a shitload of money

[citation needed]

http://mixenergy.com/interviews/chris-jaeb-broadcast-interview/

Interview with Broadcast.com’s original founder who made bank, his brother who invested $2,500 made $850M and mentions his girlfriend, who also invested, made millions as well. Any employee who had shares in the company which is often the case (you really need citations for how this works?) also would have made a lot of money.

None of those investors were employees. I know exactly how it works.

Beyond a vague “any employees who had shares…” which, yeah, obviously. Which they would have had to purchase. Which anyone could do, regardless of being an employee

TLDR: NastyButtler fails to support their specious argument and Breadsmasher refutes each point reasonably. Argument won by the latter

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