Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

• 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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      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah building a resilient, secure and sustainable home would be amazing, paying someone to build a bunker in NZ is just another way for rich people to show off.

        I bet there’s a bunker builder somewhere in New Zealand laughing with his mates ‘ok so if it actually goes to shit you can have zucks bunker, Bob and Mary can have Gate’s, I’ll have that oil guys one with the underground swimming pool - talking of which, you coming to the party there next weekend?’ I mean what are they going to do when they get to their bunker and it’s already locked down with the gun turrets activated?

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