Ah yes, when I think of people accumulating vast amounts of capital my first thought is also... Communists.

For those wondering, according to Forbes the top richest people are:

1. Musk. South African/Canadian/American depending on how you slice it
2. Bezos. American
3. Arnault. French
4. Zuckerberg. American
5. Ellison (Oracle). American
6. Page (Google). American
7. Brin (Google). American
8. Gates. American
9. Ballmer. American
10. Buffett. American.

I'd also consider the Walton family as a whole. While split up, the often join their money together and are also pretty American.

So... I know these things change over time but it seems really bizarre to list off countries famous for having too-wealthy people without naming America.

Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb. It's just further contributing to the erosion of the commons.

Weird how all the evil uber rich are outside the states.

"It's always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia" 🙄. Or philanthropists in USA. Or all of the above, in any country, including USA.

How is this a science meme?

Does this ruby actually exist? There seem to be almost no references to it online. A Rolling Stones article, OP's link, and a couple of reddit posts. It does not appear on Wikipedia's list of world's largest rubies. As recently as last year, this would have placed #1 on world's largest rubies sold.

Something smells fishy here.

Devolution is Real!

Not only did Marky mark buy the world's largest ruby gemstone because he's fucking rich, he also fucking never actually sold it and kept the shit-shaped gem

Not only is he a racist, he's one of dumbass uber-rich.

it's literally mentioned that Mark Mothersbaugh bought the ruby before carving it. It's supposed to be a joke about the type of person who'd buy such a thing, well look in the mirror. imagine trying to make a mockery of rich people and this is the avenue you do it with

I used to like Devo. I still like their 70s stuff but they've never been as subversive as they claim to be.

He whipped it good!

Its quite funny when countries that arent the US are mentioned in bad light as a joke on lemmy.

"B-b-buttttt thE USA DOES BAD THINGS"

Ew, reddit is leaking