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You're not a weirdo. This is something I feel similarly about, but here's the thing about rich people: 1. The path to becoming rich puts them in a social class
by L_Rahman 9y ago
You're not a weirdo. This is something I feel similarly about, but here's the thing about rich people:
1. The path to becoming rich puts them in a social class that warps their view of what matters and leaves measuring themselves against arbitrary hierarchies of their own making.
2. The path to becoming rich in modern society is such that the kind of people who would commission RISC-V implementations or security audits of popular open source software or cheap medical interventions simply cannot succeed. It may require too much of a compromise of those beliefs to actually win.
- kev009 9y agoDon't get me wrong it would totally be about ego and about how excellent your own design tastes are. You'd name all the stuff after yourself. That's why it'd be considered art :D Some of the robber barons did some interesting eccentricities like Carnegie libraries. The Long Now clock is the most recent thing I can think of.