• vodka@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    Did people read the article? He’s been doing sperm donation for 15+ years, and wants to leave his inheritance to also be split with the kids that have come from sperm donation. Isn’t this a good thing?

    It’s not like he’s personally impregnated women for 100+ children. Which it seems to be what the comments here are reacting to?

    Not saying this billionaire is a saint or anything, but it really doesn’t look like people here are reading past the headline…

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          It’s fine if they are his bastard children, just as long as he has some blood relationship to the people he redistributes the wealth to

          That’s not weird at all…

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            6 months ago

            In a 100 years, we’re going to have wars between the scions of the various Sacred Houses of Silicon Valley, as people kill one another for being part of a heretical bloodline.

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      6 months ago

      That’s not the issue though I think most people think it’s gross because it was specifically done to get as many progeny as possible. I’m not arguing he’s a racist or bigot but the quiver full mentality is specifically racist.

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      6 months ago

      It’s not like he’s personally impregnated women for 100+ children.

      Would have been a legend if he did though.

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    6 months ago

    OK new rule, when someone gets to net worth of a billion dollars we give them an award, say congratulations you win capitalism, the. Take them out the back and shoot them. Creepy fucks.

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    6 months ago

    I think I’m missing something because you don’t usually donate sperm and then act like it’s your children afterwards. It sounds like a creepy move to insert himself in the lives of a bunch of families.

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    6 months ago

    Wow you kind of got to feel bad for his six real children. He says he sees no difference between any of his children. He sees no difference between the six kids he supposedly raised, or I guess his Nanny’s raised I don’t know, and the 95 Plus children who came from sperm donations. What a fucked up thing to say. What a bizarre way of looking at the world.

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      6 months ago

      his six real children

      I mean, he fathered them. They’re his biological children. And he’s a billionaire, so its not like he doesn’t have enough cash to spread around. No one is going hungry.

      I guess his Nanny’s raised I don’t know

      Right. The dude just wanted to maximize his baby-making rate. He didn’t want to be a father. He just wanted to have offspring because he’s in a Quiverfull cult in Silicon Valley that considers your number of children some kind of high score.

      What a bizarre way of looking at the world.

      That’s billionaires for you. Abolish them.

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    6 months ago

    Why are all these fucking weirdos like he, Epstein, Musk obsessed with having the most progeny? Fucking malignant narcissists.

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      6 months ago

      They literally think they are part of a Master Race and that their magic jizz will create a future line of ubermensch.

      It’s esoteric fascism.

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      6 months ago

      It’s natalism and it’s a wierd and (you nailed it) narcissistic ideology.

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      6 months ago

      Is it possibly an extension of their “line goes up” mentality? Or is there a possibility they’re moving towards something more nefarious? 100 kids seems like a lot to try and manage if you’re actually acknowleging them as progeny and distributing your wealth among them.

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        6 months ago

        If you’re a billionaire, that’s 10M dollars given per child assuming no taxes

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          6 months ago

          I was thinking of the logistics to set it up initially, but yeah to billionairres its probably easier to hire that out or something.

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            6 months ago

            Trusts don’t pay inheritance tax, and LTD companies don’t pay capital gains. Loophole’s everywhere, by design