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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hope one day China takes over the US and zeros all their accounts, just to show how easily their financial wealth can be removed from existence.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

There's an episode of Star Trek TNG where they wake up a bunch of 20th century people, including a capitalist. He has the biggest culture shock of the episode.

picard-excited This is the 24th century. Material needs no longer exist.
cap-think Then what's the challenge?
picard-pointing The challenge, Mr. Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Rich people are the most insufferable assholes on the planet

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

Didn’t Elon sleep with his wife?

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago

Did he dislike that Elon slept with his wife?

[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Different Google co-founder, apparently

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

It's a big polycule and you're not in it carlin-pog

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Rich person promises to keep his immense wealth in the hands of other rich people, says fuck the poors, more news at 11

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

But my long term altruism

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

If they want to go to Mars so bad, they should just go

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know i'm asking hypotheticals here because we will never go to Mars unless China does it, but i still have to ask if backup humanities linked to Elon Musk are exempt from the "no anti-nautilism" clause in the CoC.

[-] Neoinvin@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

it is kinda weird that the coc specifically calls out the worship of shelled cephalopods.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I think it's something we have to take up with the Court of Martian Law

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago
[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If we've learned anything from modern civilization on earth, it's that humans from the west are very good at living in harmony with a fragile ecosystem, so this mars thing will definitely work

[-] fox@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

No ecosystem no problem

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

tbh all the toxic heavy metals in the soil all over the planet make it a non-starter to begin with

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Why does it say Benzinga above that headline? I can't tell if this is a joke or not

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago
[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

how fitting

[-] neo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

When your net worth goes over that $1B threshold you just automatically lose any shred of goodness you can possess as a human?

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You've long shed it before you even get close. Improvements to quality of life and access to quality consumer amusements hit diminishing returns in the tens of millions if not earlier. Beyond that, the purpose of personal accumulation is conquest and being above the law

[-] x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Didn't my-hero promise that he will go to Mars in 2020? Didn't happen.

If they were serious about humans living on Mars long-term, they'd be doing preparations for it. Do a proof of concept here on Earth, there are plenty of inhabitable places here. Any of them are easy mode compared to Mars. As long as I don't see a proof of concept, I'll assume it's empty words. (Which is honestly the better, considering the work conditions at the guy's companies, we don't want humans to be permanently stuck with him on another planet...)

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I'd look forward to the Event Horizon Blood Orgy footage of him being mauled to death by his space slaves after the colony revolts because he tried rationing water for the third time in a month

[-] O__O@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Larry page confirmed thick as fuck

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

What the fuck do you even say?

[-] FreydounHosseini@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m not religious but I really think Larry Ellison is actually the devil. He literally looks like the stereotypical cartoon devil.

[-] Class_of_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

billionaire solidarity

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