Hermes billionaire to leave £5bn to former gardener (www.telegraph.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 05:55
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sviper@programming.dev on 21 Dec 2023 06:24 next collapse

And then he will lose it all,

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe on 21 Dec 2023 17:30 collapse

Your oligarch dick sucking aside, the nice thing about losing 99% of five billion dollars is that still leaves you fifty million dollars.

count_dongulus@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 07:23 next collapse

Sounds like a secret affair with the gardener

Lophostemon@aussie.zone on 21 Dec 2023 07:53 collapse

That’s exactly what happened and it’s not secret. They are referred to in some publications as ‘the couple’.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 10:17 next collapse

Secret-again/Not-secret-again loverz

Cinner@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 14:48 collapse

Where did you see that they were a couple?

The newspaper said the unnamed Moroccan man is married to a woman of Spanish origin with two children, and that Mr Puech refers to them as his “children”, “daughter-in-law” and “adopted son”.

It said he was particularly touched at the way they looked after him during the Covid pandemic.

Sounds like he’s a reclusive hermit who inherited family wealth, and wants to give it to the only friends/family he has.

xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 21 Dec 2023 16:46 collapse

And, of course, the only people he thinks are in need and “deserve” it are the few members of the unwashed masses he interacted with on a daily basis that he views as worthy of his unearned fortune.

Cinner@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 18:13 collapse

Reclusive hermit

has 1 chosen “family” that took care of him and loved him

leaves half his fortune to that family

confusing innit?

charlytune@mander.xyz on 21 Dec 2023 08:17 next collapse

Read this as Hamas billionaire and was very confused.

chitak166@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 08:19 next collapse

Eh. I’d rather he didn’t have that money in the first place.

Woht24@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 23:59 collapse

Lol

DessertStorms@kbin.social on 21 Dec 2023 11:57 next collapse

...creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn't earn that money. As is tradition.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 2023 12:03 next collapse

That guy earned it by gardening

GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip on 21 Dec 2023 13:06 next collapse

There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 21 Dec 2023 19:10 collapse

He worked and apparently someone valued his work plus presence plus…😉 For billions. He won it.

If you can get paid for your efforts, your product, and someone values it, then that’s what it’s worth.

DessertStorms@kbin.social on 21 Dec 2023 18:42 collapse

Lol, no, no he didn't.

HollandJim@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 12:26 collapse

Technically he’s also removing himself in the process, so nil sum gain.

DessertStorms@kbin.social on 21 Dec 2023 18:45 collapse

Way to deliberately miss the point.. I said "creating" not "adding", it isn't about the number of billionaires, but how they become that.

HollandJim@lemmy.world on 22 Dec 2023 05:46 collapse

And you missed my point - it’s migrating value, not creating new value. Anyway, being pedantic also misses the point - we should take up gardening. 👍

KinNectar@kbin.run on 21 Dec 2023 22:07 collapse

Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous