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Its interesting that if you are sitting on top of something valuable its great, as long as its not too valuable. At a certain point people are willing to kill a
by nathan_compton 2y ago
Its interesting that if you are sitting on top of something valuable its great, as long as its not too valuable. At a certain point people are willing to kill and cheat for something really valuable, and then if you are sitting on top of it, you're fucked.
- amelius 2y agoSomething is missing in your theory. Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, etc. are sitting on something really valuable.
- mycologos 2y agoThe thing that's missing is living under a functional government.
- nathan_compton 2y agoIt isn't really that exploitable, though. You couldn't march up to any of these people and take it and have it keep its value. It's not like Musk has a 4 billion dollar diamond in his stomach.
- selimthegrim 2y agoNow I’m envisioning Musk like the Christmas goose in The Blue Carbuncle
- selimthegrim 2y ago*Adventure of the…
- makeitdouble 2y agoThis is the resource curse in a very reduced and local setting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse