Billionaires like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are parasites, worse than socially useless. But they’ve got to justify their existence somehow, so, like five-year-olds, they’re now pretending to be astronauts.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/billionaire-space-race-richard-branson-bezos-musk …
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Replying to @jacobin
reminder that its bad on purpose to make u click
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jacobin
I mean, it’s not the most insightful take ever, but the part about “justifying their own existence” seems pretty accurate.
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Replying to @ara_hagopian @jacobin
no one has to justify their existence to anyone else
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jacobin
I don’t understand what you’re saying. Nobody “has to”, but certainly people can feel like they have to.
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Replying to @ara_hagopian @jacobin
my theory of mind might be rusty but if I had to guess why a person might build a rocket it would probably be either (i) to compete with rivals who are also rocket builders or (ii) because it's cool as hell
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