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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(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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imagine what would happen if bezos or gates actually tried to fix the us education system (instead of just funding research and pilot projects). people would throw a fit
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khan academy is pretty weaksauce and even it is getting a big backlash
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