The Ellisons have more luck than brains. That is the hallmark of most Western billionaires.

Modern culture does not reward intelligence or empathy. It rewards psychopathy, narcissism, exploitativeness, parasitism, hyperbole, deception, nepotism, and immorality.

That’s the actual toolkit. Not being a visionary, innovator, or creator. That takes up too much brain space. These are people who “delegate” (read: fob off to naive workers) responsibilities and voraciously steal ideas. Again, doing the actual work yourself leaves you unfocussed and exhausted.

Every time you give in to a billionaire’s demands, the less the billionaire can respect you. The more you stroke the billionaire’s ego, the more repulsive you become: praise from someone lower on the pecking order is an insult: it insinuates that the person on the lower rung thinks their validation should mean something to the predator they are patting on the head like a little puppy.

This is what the MAGA supporters still don’t get: a billionaire president thinks you’re a nobody; so he’s not going to be impressed or moved by your best sucking noises. Get off your knees and grow a pair.

Oracle has been in the news lately, but understanding what the signs actually mean is not going to be found by (A) a credulous middle-class person, (B) the press, or (C) the press release both are cribbing from to sound in the know.

The Ellison himbos bought a legacy guzzler studio (Paramount), messed it up, and then went to buy another legacy guzzler (Warner Bros.), because, you know, IP.

IP, as in, aging right along with Gen X. Yeah.

But let’s talk about the difference between luck and brains.

They were smooching up to the same president whose bone-headed and cockamamie scam to bomb Iran, which lead to Iran successfully pulverize their data centre in Dubai.

Because they thought that was a “safe” and “easy” location to build it.

It wasn’t, of course.

But buying relic studios and not considering potential threats are minor failings.

Laying off 30,000 employees while supposedly having a thriving company is quite another.

Oh no! AI!

Uh, no.

Don’t be naive.

You don’t have people in relic mode looking at the future: they will always falls back on old-timely gambits.

And there is something quite desperate about their moves. They may have billions on paper, but that’s mostly bloat.

Every few years, companies use convenient excuses to lay off staff without admitting the real reason. RTO, vaccine mandates, AI have been used, but it’s funny how it’s never because there is a recession.

No one can argue that tariffs, inflation, and gas prices have not wrecked the economy. That makes zero sense, especially after the 2020 lockdowns.

What we have is a credulous press that always makes excuses and spins rot so positively.

If we had a press that actually did its job, these gossipy articles would be replaced with something called facts.

You have robber barons lose billions of dollars through lawsuits, boycotts, tariffs, gas prices, declining sales, store closures, inflation, and yet somehow, the money fairy keeps lifting their bottom line even more.

These blaring inconsistencies can be straightened out with a few good questions and a lot more research.

And both would go a long way in explaining how a generation of super rich keep defying the rules of reality.