i hope that one day creating trillions in economic value for the world will be seen as heroic, as wealth creation is the only thing we know to increase life standards within the nation & globally
Seth Harp @sethharpesq
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Typical psych profile of a tech oligarch: Born rich but with below average intelligence. Anxious, anhedonic, antisocial, disagreeable, humorless, disliked by others. Bland on the surface, but driven by an implacable mania and shrewd aptitude for making money. Entirely amoral.
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it makes a lot of sense that billionaires are put under intense pressure from the people similar to what they go through now, but demonizing the making of money and concentration of capital will be the downfall of the western world if we go down that path
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money is infinite, allocating it is the only hard part. people significantly overestimate the governments ability to allocate money. you could give the government infinite money and they would be completely incapable of doing what elon has done for just a few billions
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Replying to @GabrielPeterss4
You are wrong. It’s about unity of effort. Something that money cannot buy, which is why the government still sucks at it. Companies succeed because of individual and collective self-belief, and chance, largely. The more surface area you have for opportunity, the greater chance of success. Except there’s no convex optimization filtering to the right problems. That’s why everyone pivots to ads. You can control that and stimulate consumption. And yet, it could still be possible in your frame, but at what cost and to whom?

Nov 7, 2025 · 9:04 PM UTC
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