PhineasLet’s stop saying ‘world’s first trillionaire’ and start saying ‘world’s *last* trillionaire’
Ashwin DixitI fully support trillionaires, with 2 conditions:
1) Everyone should be a trillionaire.
2) There should be no hyperinflation.
VictorIs that even a problem? Does anyone *want* to go to work?
People would work as part-time volunteers, to serve their community with love, and to practice skills for self development, like going to a Dojo. Robots would do the hard work.
Sir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️I don't know what motivates Elon, and why he needs that much money, when there are people starving in the world.
Why go Mars? Unless we feed people here, on Spaceship Earth 🌎, and can take care of this planet, we will get to Mars and end up trashing it also.
@ashwin @victor0190 @PhineasX as one who helped set up the first Earth Week at U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I'm totally with you. People like him live in some alternate universe. Hopefully a Black Hole will be their exit
Rich people are just broken kids, insecure on the inside. So they derive their self worth from money, because they don't see themselves as worthy, just being human. They need to appear larger than life, and so they self aggrandize. Having money confers social status. To gain more status, they need to impress upon others, how valuable this human construct called money is. So they create a world where some people are kept starving, while others are dazzled by glittering things, media imagery, advertisements, and they run the rat race, hoping to get rich, like the billionaires. They don't realize that money does not make people happy. It only reduces physical suffering, upto a sweet spot, beyond which, it's futile to have more money, or work for it. No matter how rich you are, you only eat 3 meals a day. No matter how many houses you have, or how many bedrooms in your home, you only sleep in one bed at time. No matter how many pretty people are out there, you have only one set of genitalia. Yet, people chase this mirage, which only brings fleeting pleasure, not lasting joy and contentment.
Bezos was happy when he had a wife, with whom he shared a dream of starting a bookstore, because they both loved books, and each other. Chasing money, he lost the simple joy, made Billions, became the envy of the masses, and now has an inflatable plastic wife, and no heart that is sensitive to the suffering of the poor people. As a book lover, he once had that sensibility, though now he has a super yacht to impress others.
What is Elon chasing? Rosebud?
"We work jobs we hate, to afford crap we don't need, to impress people we don't like."
~ Chuck Palahniuk.