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Well, this is better than what Bezos is using his surplus money for.
by amelius 10mo ago
Well, this is better than what Bezos is using his surplus money for.
- coderjames 10mo agoYou don't support trying to save the planet? The Bezos Earth Fund: https://www.bezosearthfund.org/ https://www.bezosearthfund.org/
- adventured 10mo agoThe planet will be just fine. It measures consequential time in many millions of years. You mean: support saving humanity.
- RealityVoid 10mo agoI mean, yeah. When people way saving the planet they mean saving humanity. That's exactly it. A barren rock does no one no good. I don't get it why people hang onto this expression, it's as if you heard that George Carlin bit and now that's your anchor to reality.
- leoc 10mo agoFor the past 50+ years there really has been a somewhat significant and quite influential body of people who genuinely want to preserve the planet’s ecosystem even at the expense of the people living on it.
- dylan604 10mo agoIt's not like the dinosaurs had a save the earth campaign. Yet, before humans the rock had life forms that died out while the rock itself continued being a viable planet supporting life. If humans die off, the planet will continue on with life continuing in new ways.
- A_D_E_P_T 10mo agoBezos is one of the best, though? Blue Origin, the Long Now foundation, and I could go on all day. I don't know of too many other billionaires so willing so spend vast sums on the Heinleinian dreams of their youth.
- skeeter2020 10mo agoI don't believe it's a net benefit to the world when a single person fundamentally changes entire economies, captures a significant portion of the resource stream and then maybe a some point redirects a portion of of it to their pet projects. Although I strongly support shooting tech bros and politicians into space (one way; even better)!