• AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Does this ruby actually exist? There seem to be almost no references to it online. A Rolling Stones article, OP’s link, and a couple of reddit posts. It does not appear on Wikipedia’s list of world’s largest rubies. As recently as last year, this would have placed #1 on world’s largest rubies sold.

    Something smells fishy here.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    Ah yes, when I think of people accumulating vast amounts of capital my first thought is also… Communists.

    For those wondering, according to Forbes the top richest people are:

    1. Musk. South African/Canadian/American depending on how you slice it
    2. Bezos. American
    3. Arnault. French
    4. Zuckerberg. American
    5. Ellison (Oracle). American
    6. Page (Google). American
    7. Brin (Google). American
    8. Gates. American
    9. Ballmer. American
    10. Buffett. American.

    I’d also consider the Walton family as a whole. While split up, the often join their money together and are also pretty American.

    So… I know these things change over time but it seems really bizarre to list off countries famous for having too-wealthy people without naming America.

    Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb. It’s just further contributing to the erosion of the commons.

    • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      3 days ago

      The richest people in the world aren’t on the richest people in the world list because they own entire countries. Putin is probably the richest single person in the world. Kim Jong Un is up there too.

      If you can have literally anything you want within your own borders that’s a lot more than having shares in some company that could lose value overnight.

      • daltotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        That’s not really being rich, though. The guys on that list could theoretically buy whatever countries they wanted, hell, they could buy multiple, hell, they could just buy owning stock in every country by way of bribery. If you’re the leader of a single country, it’s as though your money is all invested for you already in that single country. You’re mostly locked down to wherever you are. But the Walton family, owning Walmart, last time I checked the third largest economy in the world, they can extract that money and pivot wherever they want, with basically no borders or limits.

    • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Let’s be real… he’s exhibiting this in an art museum in NYC. And he’s still working as a TV and film composer.

      Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb.

      You suggest the real reason for doing it. So a billionaire can own it and say “see, I’m not one of the bad billionaires, because I’m in on the joke.”

  • apocalypticat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    “It’s always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia” 🙄. Or philanthropists in USA. Or all of the above, in any country, including USA.

  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Its quite funny when countries that arent the US are mentioned in bad light as a joke on lemmy.

    “B-b-buttttt thE USA DOES BAD THINGS”