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Don’t forget building rockets to go to Mars.

• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  That's literally one of the two high-prominence rich people who does something useful with their money (other being Gates and his charity efforts).
  • pr0zac 6y ago
    As much as I dislike him and dislike the idea of the privatization of space, Bezos is also funding a rocket company with his billions, Blue Origin.
• benologist 6y ago
  Buying your neighbor's surrounding houses for privacy...
• vehemenz 6y ago
  Which is great, unless your entire country is swallowed up by social and educational problems that enable a corrupt, fascist government, or if deforestation and despeciation continues at its current pace. The technological gains from rockets, solar panels, and electric cars won't matter then. Figure those things out, and then a trip to Mars won't look like a sci-fi futurist's vanity project.
  • ben_w 6y ago
    Most of those things require a lot more than even a hundred-billionaire can fix. Hell, even just “make successful electric car brand” is more than I was expecting when I first heard about Tesla, and even if they do as well as their current market cap implies, they’re still not going to solve climate change by themselves — and that’s one of several causes of the current mass extinction.