Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

notabird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now, delusion aside, I don’t know why some want to be around in a post-apocalyptic world.

  Especially as a billionaire, which wouldn’t make a difference after a catastrophic collapse of the financial system.

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  • ourob@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re just not thinking like a narcissistic billionaire.

    You see, the financial system didn’t make him a billionaire. His innate genius and talent did. All the system has done is prevent him from truly achieving greatness, with its laws and regulations.

    But post-apocalypse? All that is swept away. He can be more than a mere billionaire. He can make the world the way it should be, directly, without the slow, imperfect process of buying politicians and funding think tanks.

    And, of course, he will be one of the ones to rise to the top. He’s a billionaire. The cream of the crop. He didn’t just luck into his wealth through family or gambling investing. His inherent greatness placed him at the top, and it will obviously do it again when society collapses.

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know why some want to be around in a post-apocalyptic world

    Humans have a strong will to survive and we’re great at adapting. I don’t quite see what’s so strange about it. If a plane crashes into ocean and I find myself on a deserted island I’d try to survive there too. Ofcourse in a post apocalyptic world there’s no hope of help arriving but that doesn’t really change anything for me. I find thinking about stuff like this fascinating and I’d absolutely build myself a “doomsday bunker” if I was a millionaire.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      sure I wouldn’t actively go after death, but wasting resources building and maintaining a bunker for a hypothetical post-apocalyptic and miserable life… just saying that this is a rational decision and given a rational thought I would rather be gone in this scenario.

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      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s wasteful for sure and many of these people are building these somewhere in New Zealand for example expecting that they can just fly a private jet there when the shit hits the fan. If I were to build one I’d want to live there too so it wouldn’t just be a concrete box under ground.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So does Steve Spez Huffman. Fuck him and his stupid fucking teeth.

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• Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are more like him who will probably survive whatever comes in the first months. I pity the survivors who have to deal with their bullshit.

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