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>Imagine raising a bunch of cats instead of people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezzos Elon Musk or Warren Buffet. Unironically this would probably be a better world

>Imagine raising a bunch of cats instead of people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezzos Elon Musk or Warren Buffet. Unironically this would probably be a better world to live in. I can certainly think a few more names worth adding as well.

bpodgursky 6y ago
If you honestly think this, you've spent too much time on very dismal parts of the internet.
- eertami 6y ago
  Is it dismal to think that perhaps billionaires are not a net positive for society?
  - bpodgursky 6y ago
    Yes, actually. You could argue (you'd be wrong) that it's bad for them to hold onto most of the billions they earned, but arguing that Gates, Elon and Bezos have produced "net negative" for the world is incredibly dumb and cynical. They've obviously produced an incredible amount of value for billions of people.
    - lm28469 6y ago
      It's not so much about "value" (or most likely "money") they brought to individuals but more about which way they steer society as a whole. When you look at it this way it's not as clear cut as you appear to believe
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- lm28469 6y ago
  On the other hand people praising Musk &co as if they were done sort of prophets spent way too much time on another very biased part of the internet...
  - thefounder 6y ago
    They are not prophets but seems they were at the right time in the right place to produce some world changing things. A cat can't do that.
    - heavyset_go 6y ago
      Tesla was producing electric cars far before Musk got involved and then claimed to be a founder.
      - thefounder 6y ago
        Still, Tesla was not founded by a cat for sure.
    - lm28469 6y ago
      An electric car for the top 0.01% of the wealthiest and an online supermarket (selling mostly counterfeit Chinese products) are hardly world changing in my book, at most they're "nice to have" and even that would only be true if we don't look at the negative side. People have to take a few steps back and look at the big picture, these things are shiny new toys distracting us from real issues. The cat things doesn't matter, we humans have the capacity to alter the world like no other animals and so far we're on course to destroy most of it, and its life, by the end of the millennia. It doesn't matter what a cat can or cannot do, what matters is what we do, tech gadgets are fun and all but as I said, take a few steps back.

bpodgursky 6y ago

If you honestly think this, you've spent too much time on very dismal parts of the internet.

eertami 6y ago
Is it dismal to think that perhaps billionaires are not a net positive for society?
- bpodgursky 6y ago
  Yes, actually. You could argue (you'd be wrong) that it's bad for them to hold onto most of the billions they earned, but arguing that Gates, Elon and Bezos have produced "net negative" for the world is incredibly dumb and cynical. They've obviously produced an incredible amount of value for billions of people.
  - lm28469 6y ago
    It's not so much about "value" (or most likely "money") they brought to individuals but more about which way they steer society as a whole. When you look at it this way it's not as clear cut as you appear to believe
  - deleted 6y ago
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lm28469 6y ago
On the other hand people praising Musk &co as if they were done sort of prophets spent way too much time on another very biased part of the internet...
- thefounder 6y ago
  They are not prophets but seems they were at the right time in the right place to produce some world changing things. A cat can't do that.
  - heavyset_go 6y ago
    Tesla was producing electric cars far before Musk got involved and then claimed to be a founder.
    - thefounder 6y ago
      Still, Tesla was not founded by a cat for sure.
  - lm28469 6y ago
    An electric car for the top 0.01% of the wealthiest and an online supermarket (selling mostly counterfeit Chinese products) are hardly world changing in my book, at most they're "nice to have" and even that would only be true if we don't look at the negative side. People have to take a few steps back and look at the big picture, these things are shiny new toys distracting us from real issues. The cat things doesn't matter, we humans have the capacity to alter the world like no other animals and so far we're on course to destroy most of it, and its life, by the end of the millennia. It doesn't matter what a cat can or cannot do, what matters is what we do, tech gadgets are fun and all but as I said, take a few steps back.