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Toys don't generate negative attention. The biggest toy buyer in the tech industry was Paul Allen. He collected planes, sport franchises, yachts, guitars, drum

by GDC7 5y ago

Toys don't generate negative attention. The biggest toy buyer in the tech industry was Paul Allen. He collected planes, sport franchises, yachts, guitars, drumkits, Ferraris, Porsches.... Enjoying time buying toys signals the world that you are human, whereas people are really intimidated by robotic figures like Zuck, Musk, Gates and Bezos because they think they'd only rest and enjoy life when they managed to subjugate the entire world. Everybody loved Paul Allen, instead. When you start purchsing toys you signal society that your trajectory has reached the apogee and now you enter in consumption mode to hopefully die without any asset to your name after some "really good innings". You get the good innings and society gets wealth redistribution which can be accelerated by discriminatory pricing given that everybody knows you re a billionaire and you are short on time, not money. Which is exaclty what happened to Paul Allen

LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Everybody loved Paul Allen, instead. I bet if you surveyed a representative group of Americans, a very small portion would even know who Paul Allen is. Anyway, in the developed world, the "social hatred" the other person referred to is generalized. The average person probably can probably name fewer billionaires than they have fingers and toes (if that), but images of mansions, yachts, private jets, supercars, lavish jewelry, etc. factor prominently in the backlash against our modern gilded age.
- GDC7 5y ago
  Generalized hatred is not real hatred. Only hatred aimed at a person counts. Generalized hatred at unknown private jet owner doesn't count because it's not actionable . It only counts if you can congregate on that person property (real or virtual) to make them feel the hatred in the form of insults, chants and so forth A generalized "eat the rich!" chant won't make a billionaire lose sleep

by GDC7 5y ago

LurkingPenguin 5y ago

> Everybody loved Paul Allen, instead. I bet if you surveyed a representative group of Americans, a very small portion would even know who Paul Allen is. Anyway, in the developed world, the "social hatred" the other person referred to is generalized. The average person probably can probably name fewer billionaires than they have fingers and toes (if that), but images of mansions, yachts, private jets, supercars, lavish jewelry, etc. factor prominently in the backlash against our modern gilded age.

GDC7 5y ago
Generalized hatred is not real hatred. Only hatred aimed at a person counts. Generalized hatred at unknown private jet owner doesn't count because it's not actionable . It only counts if you can congregate on that person property (real or virtual) to make them feel the hatred in the form of insults, chants and so forth A generalized "eat the rich!" chant won't make a billionaire lose sleep