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> How was this compelling to people who control serious money? Access to money, and intelligence, are not positively correlated. Jury is out on whether there i
by coldpie 3y ago
> How was this compelling to people who control serious money?
Access to money, and intelligence, are not positively correlated. Jury is out on whether there is no correlation, or if there is negative correlation. Given the braindead antics of the wealthy over the past 10 years, I'm leaning towards the latter.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoAnybody remember that rich dude who built a submarine against every single convention and over the screaming shouting objections of literally every other person alive who's built submarines, who then tried to go to the Titanic and killed himself and four other people? How about Musk who bought a successful if mid-tier social media site for 44 billion dollars and has cratered it to being worth barely 4? How about Zuck who renamed his entire damn company in a bid to pivot to the metaverse just in time for that entire house of cards to come crashing down?
- coldpie 3y ago[flagged]
- pxmpxm 3y agoI suspect the sole purpose of ideas like wealth tax is to point out undiscerning left leaning voters. You know, the people whose mental model of "the rich" comes from scrooge mcduck - wealth being mostly stored in gold coins that are easy to dive into and/or tax on annual basis.
- coldpie 3y agoKeep licking that boot, maybe you'll get a scrap!