Having indestructible wealth means he’s the smartest man in the world. If you were the world’s smartest man, after all, you’d have turned your inheritance into the world’s largest fortune, and since you haven’t done that, you aren’t the world’s smartest man. Why, you might not even be a man, the definition of which is something the world’s smartest man seems to have some opinions about.

Where was I? Oh yeah, the world’s smartest man. He’s doing the sort of things the world’s smartest man does.

He’s sending us to Mars by 2022, for example. Well, that was the timeline in 2017. I think it’s something like 2028 now, which is about how far in the future 2022 was in 2017, I notice.

It’s a specific amount of time: soon enough to get excited that the smartest man in the world is sending us to Mars, but not so soon that we pack our bags.

I don’t know if he’s defined “us,” but one thing is clear: the world’s smartest man is sending some value of “us” to Mars, and you shouldn’t doubt it.

Or for example he is going to build a hyperloop that will revolutionize transportation. It’s only going to cost 10 billion of our Earth dollars to build and it’s going to be like a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table" according to him. It’s going to use magnetic levitation and vacuum-sealed tubes to transport people at 700 mph to their destinations.

It also never worked and was never even built or even funded.

It almost makes you think that when people who are enriched from the existing status quo engage in what they call “disruption,” what they are disrupting is any progress away from the status quo.

I’m nowhere near the world’s smartest man, but it strikes me that you don’t have to try to save Earth if we’re all going to live on Mars in the perpetually not-too-distant future.