I don't get people mad about billionaires investing in vanity projects rather than Fixing Society when step one in any reasonable plan to Fix Society would be forcible regime change
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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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