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There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a

There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out.

scarejunba 7y ago
Oh yeah, dude, I forgot we could just use one million dollars to stop North Korea from detonating a nuclear device. Absolute genius. Don't know why we didn't think of this one. Good one, mate.
- dang 7y ago
  Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
solveit 7y ago
Your garden variety millionaire doesn't have enough influence to manipulate a well-organized homeowner's association. Averting nuclear holocaust is well outside their capabilities. The only way they could amass enough influence would be by grouping up with like-minded people and fighting for a common cause, but that's just called politics, and there are indeed many, many millionaires in politics. I have not seen many people suggest that this is a good thing.
wolfgke 7y ago
> There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out. "Nobody" is willing to appoint such "millionaire" hackers as "benevolent dicators" in multiple countries, which would be near to a necessity to enable them to avert this scenario. So the best they can do is dig holes.
xwdv 7y ago
Being a millionaire doesn’t carry as much influence as one thinks these day. My net worth is over a million and I have no real influence on the world except in making things comfortable for myself.
- Lowkeyloki 7y ago
  Yeah, there are a lot of variables there, such as where you live and whether your million is in liquid assets or just your net worth. But a person with money who owns land still commands more influence than one without who doesn't. I wouldn't expect a single person to avert doomsday, millionaire or pauper. I just think it's a shitty mentality to not even try to avert a disaster one believes is imminent and to just work on shielding oneself.
dokem 7y ago
I'll do what I damn well please with my money (not a millionaire).
- Lowkeyloki 7y ago
  At least you understood what I was implying. Most other commentors seemed to think I believed a single person with a million dollars could affect the change needed to avert the apocalypse. Or that I was implying said apocalypse was real in the first place.

scarejunba 7y ago

Oh yeah, dude, I forgot we could just use one million dollars to stop North Korea from detonating a nuclear device. Absolute genius. Don't know why we didn't think of this one. Good one, mate.

dang 7y ago
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

solveit 7y ago

Your garden variety millionaire doesn't have enough influence to manipulate a well-organized homeowner's association. Averting nuclear holocaust is well outside their capabilities. The only way they could amass enough influence would be by grouping up with like-minded people and fighting for a common cause, but that's just called politics, and there are indeed many, many millionaires in politics. I have not seen many people suggest that this is a good thing.

wolfgke 7y ago

> There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out. "Nobody" is willing to appoint such "millionaire" hackers as "benevolent dicators" in multiple countries, which would be near to a necessity to enable them to avert this scenario. So the best they can do is dig holes.

xwdv 7y ago

Being a millionaire doesn’t carry as much influence as one thinks these day. My net worth is over a million and I have no real influence on the world except in making things comfortable for myself.

Lowkeyloki 7y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of variables there, such as where you live and whether your million is in liquid assets or just your net worth. But a person with money who owns land still commands more influence than one without who doesn't. I wouldn't expect a single person to avert doomsday, millionaire or pauper. I just think it's a shitty mentality to not even try to avert a disaster one believes is imminent and to just work on shielding oneself.

dokem 7y ago

I'll do what I damn well please with my money (not a millionaire).

Lowkeyloki 7y ago
At least you understood what I was implying. Most other commentors seemed to think I believed a single person with a million dollars could affect the change needed to avert the apocalypse. Or that I was implying said apocalypse was real in the first place.