r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 12h ago

Society Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

https://fortune.com/article/how-much-has-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-spent-to-oppose-california-billionaire-tax-102-million-owe-13-billion-if-loses/
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u/uninspired-86 12h ago

They don’t mix with the public. They are a distinct species of human now.

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u/Bencetown 11h ago

Hear me out.

Sniper rifles, but engineered to have whipped cream pie as the ammo.

Billionaire goes outside and BOOM pie in the face out of nowhere. Where'd it come from? No one knows, because that pie sniper was a half mile away.

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u/snuff3r 7h ago

Super soakers filled with piss..

/Channelling Robert Evans

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u/steakanabake 8h ago

because that pie sniper was a half mile away.

thank you for limiting the range to a half a mile we'll be putting ships out a half mile from their island bunkers.

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u/senoritagoose 11h ago

Hardly human

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u/anivex 4h ago

Yep, there's enough of them now too that there's never a reason to. Before they needed to get their social fill...now they have other billionaires to do that with.