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I'm glad billionaires like Bezos exist. They can choose to fund grand visions when people who need votes either don't, or they do and the funding gets cut after

I'm glad billionaires like Bezos exist. They can choose to fund grand visions when people who need votes either don't, or they do and the funding gets cut after the next election. This is one of the ways China is able to execute long term strategy better than the west, they can maintain focus. We're not able to do that without a significant necessity (winning a cold war). Get over your jealousy of the billionaires. Some people are luckier than you, smarter, work harder. That's just life.

trainsplanes 5y ago
Imagine a world where instead of saying "hey, people in your town are dying on the streets, your water is full of lead, you can't afford medical treatment, and your children can't possibly afford college, but quit being jealous of lucky rich people! It's not fair to them", we instead said "we could take just a little bit of unfairly acquired cash from mega billionaires and make the lives of 300 million people measurably better." That lucky, smart, hard working, genetically gifted, handsome, strong, virile, well-endowed, wrinkle-free, and blessed by all the gods billionaire would still be able to go to space and give mindblowing amounts of cash to anyone they want even with 1/10th the wealth they have now. Otherwise, society is going to reach a breaking point as it always has and will again. But that's just life.
- dd444fgdfg 5y ago
  the problems people have is not the fault of the billionaires. sometimes it's their fault. sometimes it's their families. mostly it's their communities. the existence or lack-of of billionaire going into space is going to have zero impact on homelessness, water quality, medical treatment, and your kids going to college.