whenever a rich person behaves badly, the mainstream media fires off at least a few stories about how they're "Not Really a Billionaire" (Trump, Epstein) and "Only Rich on Paper" (Madoff, various stock scammers). Are we supposed to see this as another part of their crimes?
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"Well, he probably wouldn't have been such a bad boy if he were a Real Billionaire like Warren Buffett...no sir, no way, no how. He'd just have been endowing foundations and controlling the world and being very invisible otherwise."
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Also, what rich person in the world is anything but "rich on paper" unless they've got a bunch of tanks, planes, commandos, aircraft carriers, and nukes backing them up?
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HED: "noted billionaire arrested for vile crimes" CORRECTION: a recent study of Mr. Billionaire's assets shows that he is worth a mere $986 million...he's just a millionaire. Nothing to see here, move along.
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We see something similar when universities rush to remind newspapers that "convicted professor Joe" is "just a one-semester adjunct," although of course if "Joe" won an award, the school would claim him as at least a "lecturer" or perhaps even a "faculty member"
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Magazines do it too..."oh no, that convicted murderer was never a VICE __EMPLOYEE___, he was just a 1099 contractor...we have no ties to him whatsoever." Ditto the WWE. "Well, sir, let me remind you, the man who committed the murder-suicide was an independent contractor..."
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"I'll grant you that the killer was a WWE SUPERSTAR, but he sure as heck wasn't a WWE EMPLOYEE...sorry...we don't employ murderers, or wrestlers for that matter."
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