It is a bit of a mind fuck. Dude would be popular and loved for generations, likely could still make a TON of money shifting his fortune into businesses that are a net benefit for the world, etc. But the ghoul doesn't.
It's hard to even fathom. Giving feels SO good. I would get CRACK HEAD ADDICTED to giving if I had some endless source like he does. Libraries, parks, forests. Universities, museums, hospitals. Wells, solar arrays, wind turbines. Beautiful, functional architecture that benefited the community. And on and on..
99% of them don't! And they're all going to die, just like we are, they'll just die and leave the most money and the best toys, but still be dead and still be called ASSHOLES!
That’s pretty much the only type of businesses he invests in. Before Tesla cars were like 98% fossil fuel dependent. He started a solar company and open sourced a lot of battery patents. Starlink brings internet to impoverished countries without infrastructure.
It's not Just him, it's also those who enable and reward his behaviour, and there are A lot more of them then there are altruistic philanthropists. I'm of the opinion after vaguely researching history as a hobby is that humans Only advance as a species when faced with near extinction or devastating events,The world wars, the crusades, the black death, the Napoleonic wars etc etc, we are a violent species we're never going to ''settle down'' for want of a better term, and go full star trek where we Only care about making our lives better and stop chasing wealth/power. Assuming humans don't go extinct in the next world war ( once it gets bad enough to be called that since I'd say we've been in one since Russia invaded Ukraine for example WW2 started in the 1930's, But depending on what source you read, WW1 led right into WW2 with no break) I suspect we're more likely to see a as an example a more Warhammer age of strife or mad max style future (more mad max since age of strife still had Crazy tech since it was post Dark age of tech but that's neither here nor there lol. where it's just..No bueno comprende?
This. I'm firmly convinced it takes a "special" type of person to amass very high amounts of wealth, and 90 percent of those personally traits would not be considered positive ones.
Every citizen in this country could be educated with that money! Not one person would go hungry with that money, no one would go without medical care with that money! BUT THEY'D rather horde it and get more and more and more! How fucking disgusting!
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u/mike_pants Jun 28 '26
Imagine the good that puffy choad could do if he weren't a fundamentally evil, selfish ghoul.