For most people, passive income is a bit of extra pocket change that requires minimal effort to earn to supplement a main source of income. For Steve Ballmer, it’s $1 billion.
  • ddnomad@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

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    lol

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Billionaires gonna billionaire.

    “Hustle and grind bro. Get that bread”

    It doesn’t matter if you hustle and bring every single day for the rest of your life, you will never have a billion dollars.

    • Hoomod@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Save that $5 a day and put it in a mutual fund and in 10 years you’ll make nothing because inflation will eat any growth you might have had

  • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    ITT: a bunch of people who don’t understand how dividends work on stock ownership. He’s not collecting a salary, Microsoft is not actively paying him, he’s just an investor who owns a shit ton of stock.

    • Kiwi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Or, a bunch of people who are over the inequality in our world regardless of how the person comes by the money.

      I don’t care if Microsoft pays him a salary or not, hoarding that much wealth is a mental illness that can only be cured by a guillotine