@mattblaze the sad thing is, being rich means you can basically do whatever you want. As a very rich person I am sad to report that this is basically true. And it's deeply wrong.

@codinghorror @mattblaze I like to think of a future where being wealthy has huge stigma attached to it, because it's understood that you're a terrible person. A person with no compassion, or regard for others.

@jrivett @mattblaze I favor more of an absolute cap. You can be this rich, but no more, because it's bullshit. That money should be used to help people, to build things, to reduce poverty. Beyond that, money, like power, corrupts. It corrupts absolutely.

@codinghorror @jrivett @mattblaze

@gknauss @codinghorror @jrivett @mattblaze I always find it funny (and telling) why people don't go for "no more millionaires".

@PatrikSchoenfeldt @helge @gknauss @jrivett @mattblaze the incredible growth in home costs is such a problem. It's an essential human need. When we founded Stack Overflow, Joel Spolsky asked me "hey, if this gets really big, what would you spend the money on" and I had one simple answer: I want to own my home. That's it. That's literally all I wanted. And it's still true. I don't need fancy cars, boats, planes, designer crap.