Musk says he'll spend about $180 million to elect Trump.
They are the nation's two most powerful enemies of democracy (though Musk has some competition for second place) and, by extension, freedom of expression.
Everyone who buys a Tesla is supporting them.
Everyone who uses the deadbird site -- notably the journalists, who all know what they're doing -- is supporting them.
Don't pretend otherwise.
Apparently that much money rots all reason, taste, morality, and eventually, sanity. Judging by what those with money (mostly) wind up as.
good point. correlation is not causation. in fact, you're saying the cause and effect is the other way around. i can see that
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Not necessarily, your original point has some data to back it up. UC Irvine Associate Professor Paul Piff has done quite a bit of research on the link between wealth/success and a lack of empathy, and he's shown some evidence that wealth causes empathy to go down - notably in rigged games of monopoly.
@benroyce @shironeko @dangillmor This is my view. 1.5 centuries of psych research taught us that external circumstances shape our behavior far more than our personalities, morals, etc.
Money does rot people. The best thing we can do for billionaires is to prevent them from ever becoming billionaires. Side effect: all the good things for our world.
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