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Billionaires are wild. Bones of a T-Rex and now extra-planetary artifacts. Apparently it's a bragging-rights club? It's easy to sit on the sidelines and talk a
by JKCalhoun 1y ago
Billionaires are wild. Bones of a T-Rex and now extra-planetary artifacts. Apparently it's a bragging-rights club?
It's easy to sit on the sidelines and talk about how, if we were a billionaire, we would use our money to try to improve the planet and the people and animals on it. But I'd still like to think though that I would do exactly that.
- lostmsu 1y agoDamn, I believe I just saw the bones you are referring to today from lake Washington.
- selectodude 1y agoThat’s the beauty of being a multi-billionaire. You can do both. I can sit in my office with a giant chunk of mars and try to do decent shit.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y ago[flagged]
- JKCalhoun 1y agoIf you put it in a philanthropic trust you don't have to proceed to step 2.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoEh, I have done way less ethically challenging things in my life and already consider it. Honestly, I can't imagine the amount of exploiting you'd have to do to accumulate a billion dollars. You are talking like 23,000 years of labor at median wage in the US to have a billion dollars. If you are Elon Musk, you are talking like 10 million years. If you are okay walking through the world like that, I think you have some problems.
- pxmpxm 1y ago> exploiting you'd have to do to accumulate Your grasp of economics could use some work
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoPlease, give me resources to brush up on my "grasp of economics", because who knows what the fuck you are even talking about with a comment like that. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60807 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60807
- cooper_ganglia 1y agoYeah, it's just you.
- tpool 1y agoI think they buy these kinds of things for less philanthropic reasons and more for the same reason that the ultra wealthy invest in art: an asset that never loses and often increases in value. It’s a haven for their wealth. If you can “loan” it to professionals (e.g. a museum) who will take care of it for free, and the public can enjoy it too? It’s a solid PR move as well.
- tetris11 1y agoIt's also wealth that can be transferred seemingly without any import/export restrictions by an Art Dealer. Because, it's art, of course.
- chrisco255 1y agoHonestly I'd rather billionaires be connoisseurs of rare curiosities than meddle with national and global politics.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoSure. Wish there were more Gates' and Pardons though. (I have no idea if Dolly is a "billionaire" but I like what she does promoting reading in poor schools.)
- gosub100 1y agoThey love historical artifacts too. Creating a black market for purloined treasures.
- indoordin0saur 1y agoBefore there was such a value placed on history and artifacts these things just got melted down (if they contained valuable metals) or thrown out.