If he’s willing to trample all over people, exploit them, and have them die for his sake, then absolutely.
Billionaires don’t care about people. They don’t view others as human. To them workers are robots, a statistical means to an end. Who cares if someone dies in some factory/warehouse somewhere? There’ll be another to replace them before the end of the day.
A billionaire gladly takes the effort of others and claims it as their own. They go out of their way to do it.
That’s not to say that every evil person acting like this will automatically become a billionaire, but you need to be OK with doing these things in order to get there. A billion USD is such an insane sum you cannot legitimately accumulate that without hurting people in the process. Like there’s no logical way of actually earning that amount of money. That’s money you take.
Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It’s delightful.
I belive we have really strict gambling laws, one of the reasons we never got arcade halls here. Online casinos and such don’t count though, it seems. It feels like half a dozen pop up each week.
Love hearing about companies getting screwed over when they try to screw their workers. Delicious!
My roomie is a truck driver. As far as I understand he is salaried, but it’s a fair wage. He also gets compensation for work outside of his normal hours, and bonus pay for “uncomfortable working hours.”
So the first eight hours, provided it’s not a night shift or a holiday, he gets normal pay. Any hour after those first eight hours he gets overtime pay, I believe standard there is double the amount. Holiday/uncomfortable pay I think is also doubled.
Because of the nature of the work he racks up overtime almost daily and takes home a decent sized paycheck each month.