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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a secret affair with the gardener

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reclusive hermit

has 1 chosen "family" that took care of him and loved him

leaves half his fortune to that family

confusing innit?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Secret-again/Not-secret-again loverz

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That guy earned it by gardening

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lol, no, no he didn't.

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago

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. 👍

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

Read this as Hamas billionaire and was very confused.

[–] KinNectar@kbin.run 6 points 9 months ago

Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous