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Love me some antisemitic propaganda on one of the most-read tech pages. Mods, delete this.
how is it antisemitic? seems like an interesting point how some people used a clever information network to gain an advantage?
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I'm not particularly convinced by the risks stated here. Yes Bill Gates could buy 65% of the Turkish stock market, but if he wanted power, there are surely cheaper and easier ways to do it. And regarding stability, you could make the case that these funds could increase stability. If you're in the 0.001% then surely you have the money to have a long term out look, which means they aren't going to worry about that sho…
Both of your points are made in the article?
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how is it antisemitic? seems like an interesting point how some people used a clever information network to gain an advantage?
Because it is a story of dubious truth that supports the commonly held bigots theory that Jewish bankers secretly run the world, and was in fact spread for exactly this purpose.
Does it really matter where the worlds richest man puts the other 20% when he could afford to lose it all on moonshots and not give a damn? The risk-reward trade-offs you and me make while investing just don't apply to Jeffs personal investment decisions, and therefore aren't all that interesting.
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Using private browsing mode tends to work.
I'm not quite sure how sites do it, but, lots of sites manage to enforce the article limit across even incognito and even across browsers... i pasted an archive.is link ( http://archive.is/o3LVk ) which is quite reliable for me and 99% of the time someone else already archived it.
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0.001% of the world is about 75k people [1], there are about 2200 dollar billionaires [2], so only(!) ~3% of these people are billionaires. Not a real point to make, but I was wondering, and it might save someone else time. [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.001%25+*+world+popul... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires