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.
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.
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.
19 Comments
count_dongulus@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
Sounds like a secret affair with the gardener
Lophostemon@aussie.zone · 29 pts · 2y
That’s exactly what happened and it’s not secret. They are referred to in some publications as ‘the couple’.
Cinner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Where did you see that they were a couple?
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
confusing innit?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Secret-again/Not-secret-again loverz
DessertStorms@kbin.social · 23 pts · 2y
...creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn't earn that money. As is tradition.
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 2y
That guy earned it by gardening
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Lol, no, no he didn't.
HollandJim@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Technically he’s also removing himself in the process, so nil sum gain.
DessertStorms@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 · 21 pts · 2y
Eh. I'd rather he didn't have that money in the first place.
Woht24@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
charlytune@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
Read this as Hamas billionaire and was very confused.
KinNectar@kbin.run · 6 pts · 2y
Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous
Marsupial@quokk.au · 1 pts · 2y
sviper@programming.dev · -12 pts · 2y
And then he will lose it all,
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 5 pts · 2y
Your oligarch dick sucking aside, the nice thing about losing 99% of five billion dollars is that still leaves you fifty million dollars.