like it is kind of bizarre that philanthropy generally takes the form of malaria nets in nowhere countries rather than infrastructure in one's homeland but
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it fits perfectly with internationalist liberal ethos and people would probably be much more upset by outward national chauvinism/cooption of democracy
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anyway starting a launch company in the 21st century expecting to conquer the stars is arguably more realistic than building libraries in the 19th expecting to create a society of scholar-gentlemen
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thinking: if Bezos decided that he's going to cover healthcare for bottom 50 million or so, everyone would run screaming about how awful it is that he gets to decide etc
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it seems reasonable to be mad about existence of billionaires but kind of pointless to be mad about the exact way they spend their money
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I'm thinking specifically of the people outraged at bottled water donations to flint, how dare companies think they can supplant the government in providing services, etc
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or like, no housing in the bay area is terrible, tech companies want to build housing because no one else is willing or able, it's company towns/serfdom
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and I mean, they're not wrong! it's ridiculous that a profit-motivated corporation should step in to "provide services" over the (theoritically) populace-happiness-motivated state
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but the fact is these are foremost failures of the state rather than predations of private enterprise
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(not even necessarily materially as much as definitionally--sovereignty claims are *supremacy* claims and thus assign ultimate responsibility for all)
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hence step one. but most people wouldn't want that, not yet anyway
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Vanity projects produce more lasting good anyway, and far far less lasting pain
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I think they're mostly mad about all that money being sent into space instead of being used to buy equipment or materials or employ workers or pay for rent or utilities.
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I'm imagining Jeff Bezos singing the Stonecutters song now
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Nothing smoother than like two generations of Jacobite invasions
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Make Regime Change Glorious Again
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