Mark Cuban Puts Name Up for Top Job in Harris Administration
www.thedailybeast.com
The billionaire investor says he speaks to the Harris campaign several times a week to discuss business strategies.
  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    873·
    2 months ago

    Call me a victim of a good PR team but my general impression of Mark Cuban is that he’s definitely in the better half of billionaires

    That doesn’t qualify him for public office of course

    • Seraph@fedia.io
      361·
      2 months ago

      Actually philanthropic billionaire? Cool, but we shouldn’t have to rely on billionaire philanthropy to get by.

      Public office? To be fair he’s as qualified as our most recent ex-president.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      There was a time when I felt that way about Musk so I now have a 20 year probation period before I assume they aren’t trying to enslave mankind

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 months ago

      There’s no good billionaire. He’s a billionaire because he stole the wages and work from the people below him.

    • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Genuinely probably because he got to be a billionaire in an insanely lucky deal, I feel like that’s the only way you can stay (relatively) down to Earth with that much cash.

      • Wilzax@lemmy.world
        71·
        2 months ago

        Not to mention, he tends to spend his money by investing in startups that (as far as I can tell) actually solve a problem. He’s not one to cut corners and inflate values needlessly, and he’s far more concerned with making a business successful than extracting every penny of profit possible.

        Do I think it’s bad that one man has as much power has he does? Absolutely. Am I glad that at least one man with as much power as he does uses it to make the world a little better? You bet.

        Mark Cuban is not an example of why Billionaires should be allowed to exist, he’s just an example of how being a billionaire doesn’t NECESSARILY mean you’re an evil person.

    • DragonTypeWyvern
      14·
      2 months ago

      I expect nothing less. I also expect some people to eat that literal shit raw with zero self awareness about their reaction to Elon’s dumb ass wanting similar.

  • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
    1237·
    2 months ago

    "This is Kamala Harris’ campaign, it’s not Joe Biden’s campaign. Kamala Harris is not Joe Biden. They’re very, very different,” said Cuban, explaining that the vice president is balancing being “respectful of the president and everything he’s proposed” while also charting her own course.

    “She’s trying not to directly contradict him in any way so she talks a little bit around the subject when it comes to taxing in particular but she’s going center, 100%,” he said.

    So he’s admitting she’s not a progressive. Oof.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      134·
      2 months ago

      Uhhhh, she never ran as a full-fledged “progressive” candidate in the way you obviously refer to one anyway. Why is this a negative?

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      158·
      2 months ago

      Democrats were never going to learn because they’re paid by the same donors as Republicans. Same as it was with Clinton, it’s always a swing to the right to try to capture the middle. They don’t give a damn about workers or the left. They know who butters their bread.

      It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

      -Upton Sinclair

      Is anyone shocked that the former cop who locked up parents for their childrens’ truancy is running as a centrist?