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As it turns out, having unfathomable amounts of wealth lets you get away with just about anything.
by nickvec 6mo ago
As it turns out, having unfathomable amounts of wealth lets you get away with just about anything.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6mo agoHe has immense wealth from fraud and he is able to commit fraud because of his immense wealth.
- MattDamonSpace 6mo agoRockets land
- disqard 6mo agoElon can remain a successful bs'er longer than you can remain solvent... or something like that.
- DANmode 6mo agoYou don’t get away with it. If you can’t walk into a pizzeria on a whim (thinking about sama this week), you no longer have your freedom.
- Traubenfuchs 6mo agoYou can have a private chef make you michelin level pizza in the stone oven in the kitchen of your private jet though.
- DANmode 6mo agoCan you also have private and vetted strangers eat and mingle around you, so you feel like less of a pariah?
- M95D 6mo agoSure, but who would want that?
- DANmode 6mo agoNot me, that’s for sure.
- gessha 6mo agoI have a VC fund to pitch you. Need a co-founder? /s
- DANmode 6mo agoI actually do, but I like to serve humans, not serve humans.
- shye 6mo agoYes. I know a person that used to work in casting for such events.
- DANmode 6mo agoMy point was, you’re still a social outcast, no matter how much expensive Truman Show you set up around you.
- beng-nl 6mo agoSounds like a prison. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t like that if i couldn’t appear in public. A luxury prison, but a prison nonetheless. (Having the money would be nice, of course.)
- hn_user82179 6mo agoI don't follow, can Musk not do that? Also who/what is sama?
- eco 6mo agoIt's Sam Altman's HN username.
- DANmode 6mo agoWithout security? Sure - but it’s a risk that people of the unknown variety don’t have.
- xracy 6mo agoFeels like the world that he created by hoarding vast sums of wealth, and limiting people's free speech, and cutting social safety net programs that put more and more people at risk as the world becomes less and less stable. I would much rather have lived in the world where he could walk into a pizza place without security and fear. But I also would much rather have lived in the world where people had healthcare and they didn't have to fight companies like UHC tooth and nail to avoid getting their claims denied at every turn. And the stability of this all comes from trust in Government regulation. Which he gutted, when he gutted the programs that were targeting him for committing fraud.
- DANmode 6mo ago> I would much rather have lived in the world where he could walk into a pizza place without security and fear. I’m not sure I would. I think I’m okay with there being some remaining consequences for things you do to other people, even if what you’ve done is legal.
- xracy 6mo agoYou misunderstand me. > I think I’m okay with there being some remaining consequences for things you do to other people, I would rather live in the world where they hadn't done those things to other people. Not that I would rather people forgive them and let them into a pizza shop. It's a pizza shop, who cares, they have a million other ways to get pizza if they want it. Ostracism is the last response we have for the wealthy doing unacceptable things.
- b00ty4breakfast 6mo agoThe freedoms afforded by obnoxious wealth far outweigh the loss of anonymity. These folks could buy an entire franchise of pizzerias on a whim and have them transported to a chain of private islands in the Pacific. The myth of the tortured life of the rich and famous is a joke.