Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity!

#tech #inequality #economy #philanthropy

@jensorensen - The last panel gives me some Tom Perkins vibes (and makes me want some orcas). Web engine searches find two pages of gushing memories of Tom Perkins and his yachts before I finally found any mention of his 1996 manslaughter conviction for killing someone in a smaller boat who was in his boat's way.
@jensorensen Just like an Ayn Rand protagonist wants to save humanity...
@jensorensen. I feel this is a facade, they use 'Humanity' as a 'blanket statement', or 'blanket term' which they'll use to cover up their real motives, just like how people say in the name of 'democracy'. Please don't get me wrong there's actually really good wealthy people out there doing good things for humanity and have good intentions but are tarnished because of the bad ones.
@jensorensen I tried to help others to help communities and for the betterment of humanity to make their lives better but I felt soo let down. People didn't really support me, I felt let down. I did soo many good things. It shows soo much social decay. There were the small good percent of people who tried to uplift me.

@jxu19 @jensorensen

Which really good wealthy people are there out there?

What good things are they doing for humanity?

How did they become really wealthy?

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It is amazing how the industrial billionaires have successfully diverted our attention to focus only on tech billionaires.
Industrial billionaires have successfully bought themselves power for decades. They are quietly pointing us to look at the brash, flashy egotism of the tech Bro$.
@EugestShirley It is interesting that we don't hear about the Koch family as much as we used to, even though they're very active in politics.
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I understand that only the younger tech bro$ have the face recognition needed for a cartoon to work.
Only Charles Koch is alive. I'm not sure I would recognize any of the old money billionaires until a few were outed buying SCOTUS. members.

@jensorensen this attitude is called longtermism and most of the tech elite are subscribers

https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous

Aeon
@jensorensen Wow, this is scary on point
This is soo true lol
@jensorensen it's not the first time someone wrote/drew about the road to hell being paved with good intentions brah...
@olaolarolla @jensorensen [narrator voice] their intentions were not good
@jensorensen Perfect. (unfortunately, your comic is right on the dime about the conundrum of the moment). Thank you for sharing.
@jensorensen I love everything about this comic. Well done 😂
@jensorensen I agree with this for all except the "fund schools" part.
Do I see Project Khan in there?

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This was actually better advice than I was expecting.

@jensorensen Anyone remember the scene in Elysium where the machine told the protagonist he was exposed to radiation and was going to die, then dispensed a bottle of painkillers to help him check out? That is the best few seconds of near-future commentary I've seen lately.

@jensorensen Probably because despite of their claims, billionaires don't want to "help humanity", they want to "help" other privileged billionaires with "problems" they perceived as theirs.

And they create even more real problems in order to "solve" fictional ones, such "The problem is Earth, we need another planet", instead of "the problem is capitalism, our profits are not a reason to destroy the planet"…

@jensorensen What really gets me is that people are actually IMPRESSED by these chatbots that are WORSE THAN ELIZA!
@jensorensen this is the absolutest bestest cartoon I've seen in a while. Cuts to the point , through the bullshit, like a hot, caustic knife.
@jensorensen why make/do simple things- then we don’t get credit.
@jensorensen C'est fou comme il y a bien plus de partages que de "j'aime" sur ce réseau, ça m'épate toujours.
@jensorensen Personally i immediately glommed on to the “apartments: $3500/mo” line in the comic and exclaimed, “WHERE?”
@jensorensen my first time seeing your comics, and I'm impressed.
I see one of those guys is inspired by Sam. But who was the inspiration for the other two?
@kasperd They were more or less inspired by OceanGate cofounder Guillermo Sohnlein who spoke of colonizing Venus, Sam Altman, and SBF. https://gizmodo.com/oceangate-founder-wants-to-send-1-000-people-to-venus-1850695687
OceanGate Co-Founder Wants to Send 1,000 People to Venus—What Could Go Wrong?

OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein expressed his interest in sending 1,000 people to a floating space colony in Venus’ atmosphere by the year 2050.

Gizmodo