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It's even worse. He'll use his billion dollars to buy himself cachet in SF, NYC, and LA (and the universities, museums, etc., will all be too glad to take his m
by dharmon 7y ago
It's even worse. He'll use his billion dollars to buy himself cachet in SF, NYC, and LA (and the universities, museums, etc., will all be too glad to take his money and give him board seats), so he'll never personally feel any repercussions for the damage he has done.
Sure, us plebes will despise him, but he'll move around in circles with people like him, not us, those who have gotten rich by making the world a worse place, and then bought themselves an esteemed position in "society", where they congratulate each other on how brilliant they all are.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoWhat frustrates me to no end is that the one thing he is praised for is his "charisma" and ability to motivate people. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I have some level of Asperger's-ness (e.g. I never really understood rooting for a particular sports team), but I've never found people like this motivational. I've met these types before, and they just sound like smarmy used car salesmen or televangelists to me, and I have a visceral negative reaction to it. Yet I often look around and see other smart people pumped up and excited to act. It's an aspect of human behavior I just don't understand very well.
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