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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 15:18:16 JST Evan Prodromou

   • Brewster Kahle
   • Jayne

   @dotjayne are you not counting @brewsterkahle ?

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle?wprov=sfla1

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 21:10:41 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga

     @fbobraga @dotjayne read the Wikipedia article.

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     fbobraga (fbobraga@ayom.media)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 21:10:42 JST fbobraga

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     • Brewster Kahle
     • Jayne

     @evan @dotjayne @brewsterkahle he is a billionaire?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 16:04:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • Alex S

     @alex_mastodon @fbobraga @dotjayne @Sconient so, we all agree that it's possible to sell an Internet company for hundreds of millions of dollars and still work for the good of the world?

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     Alex S (alex_mastodon@troet.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 16:04:30 JST Alex S

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga

     @evan @fbobraga @dotjayne @Sconient
     The Wikipedia article doesn't answer the question and I don't think he is one.

     He seems to be very modest. He commutes by bike.
     https://brewster.kahle.org/2023/02/07/my-ebike-economics/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:08:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • Alex S

     @fbobraga @alex_mastodon @dotjayne @Sconient we all agree that Brewster Kahle sold Alexa and started the Internet Archive. But there's some question whether he's currently a billionaire.

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     fbobraga (fbobraga@ayom.media)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:08:44 JST fbobraga

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     • Jayne
     • Alex S

     @evan @alex_mastodon @dotjayne @Sconient who agrees with what?!?!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:46:02 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • Alex S
     • Sconient

     @fbobraga @alex_mastodon @dotjayne @Sconient what factual evidence do you dispute?

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     fbobraga (fbobraga@ayom.media)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:46:03 JST fbobraga

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     • Jayne
     • Alex S
     • Sconient

     @evan @alex_mastodon @dotjayne @Sconient I don't agree with it!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:53:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • Alex S
     • Sconient

     @alex_mastodon @fbobraga @dotjayne @Sconient yes, that is definitely a failing of the people who've done so well. Brewster might be one of the exceptions that prove the rule.

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     Alex S (alex_mastodon@troet.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:54:00 JST Alex S

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • Sconient

     @evan @fbobraga @dotjayne @Sconient
     We can agree to that, especially with the old generation of software/internet-entrepreneurs.

     But it is seldom.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:20:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

     @dougmerritt @fbobraga @dotjayne awesome. So we can all agree that humans act pro socially up until their net worth is $999,999,999 and that extra dollar turns them into a sociopath

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     DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:21:04 JST DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga

     @fbobraga @evan @dotjayne
     Unless I somehow overlooked something, the wikipedia article says (well, inescapably implies) that he is *not* a billionaire.

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     fbobraga (fbobraga@ayom.media)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:21:05 JST fbobraga

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     • Jayne

     @evan @dotjayne it tells it? I've read something about "IA" in it... (this is confounding in Portuguese, my main language: it refers to artificial intelligence - "Inteligência Artificial" here)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:54:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga
     • DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

     @dougmerritt @fbobraga @dotjayne fair. I am just saying that a) Brewster Kahle is rich and b) he founded Internet Archive. I don't know why it's important whether he's strictly a billionaire or not.

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     DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 04:54:33 JST DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

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     • Jayne
     • fbobraga

     @evan @fbobraga @dotjayne
     Note that up until now I was not arguing anything, just interpreting wikipedia.

     But since you insist on being aggressive, no, I disagree. Many humans are *born* sociopaths, and that quite clearly assists the process of becoming very rich.

     (There are exceptions; I'm not claiming a universal law or anything)