Anyone who says that last point you said is liar
Anyone who isn't French. Impossible isn't French. Victor and FrenchFred are French. Unlike Americans, many Europeans, Asians, etc., many French people don't place that much importance on money. No one wants to be a millionaire in France.
But.... Where this last sentence (
It's the same way everyone jerks off to "oh, if I were a billionaire, I'd give so much of it away...!!", yet none of the actual B's are doing it... Wonder why.) rings true for the French is that when you are a millionaire (and there are many of us in France), you are even less inclined than anywhere else to share it. This applies to taxes (my millionaire colleagues know better than anyone how to organize themselves to avoid paying taxes) as well as to charitable works.
Even millionaires in France believe that it is up to the state to provide for the most basic needs of the needy. Millionaires in France don't set up foundations to ease their conscience or promote their egos: they stay in their corner and piss off the lower classes.
The only millionaires who launch such operations are the nouveau riche, and most fortunes in France are the result of inheritance.
Athletes are the nouveau riche. Does that mean Victor doesn't care about those 50 million? Unlikely. Victor is no longer French; he is Bernard (Arnauld)'s friend (I don't yet have that honor) and he is now a French multimillionaire. The mindset tends to... become less French.
Ah, in France, we're less interested in money than elsewhere, but... we're just as stingy. The more we have, the more we want. You never know, in case of a crisis. And it's always money that won't go to the poor.
Yabusele bought out his contract with Europe's biggest club to go to the NBA, and he has just agreed to give up a second guaranteed year to go to Chicago. My hypothesis is that, paradoxically, it's harder to turn down $50 million when you're promised $250 million than it is to turn down $5 million when you were promised $10 million. The richer you are, the more you want. As a modest multimillionaire, I would probably say something different if I were a billionaire, for example. Don't ever trust me.
Rest assured, I didn't earn my millions through my studies in sociology. I simply inherited them like everyone else. And the main thing they allow me to do is demand that my financial experts always do more.
Never become a millionaire. You will exploit your fellow human beings with the idea that they are inferior to you. Let's not confuse class privilege with merit or superiority. However talented or generational Victor may be, he doesn't deserve $250 million, or even $50 million. He'll get it. But no one should decently have such a sum at their disposal. Like fascism, the idea of an ever-widening Ovorton window leads us to believe that the more we are exposed to it, the more acceptable it is.
Fascism and vast fortunes are symptoms of failing democracies. 250 million, like 50, like 10, are anomalies, cries for help that we don't want to hear.
"AND ONE! AND yet another!"
Wasn't it Jalen Brunson who accepted a pay cut precisely to free up cap space for the Knicks?
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