We don’t talk enough about billionaires as a class, with anthropological patterns and stuff. Though they get tons of attention, almost all of it is either valorizing or demonizing individual attention, or vague commentary about a strawman top-hatted archetype.
I kinda am that too since a lot of my work is in climate stuff, but as someone with no kids and old enough that I’ll probably be dead by the time it gets really bad, I’m almost neutral to whatever scenario unfolds
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But... what about younger friends, nieces/nephews, future readers, other people’s kids, humanity as a whole? Even though I might still have kids one day, I don’t feel like that’s at all my only form of skin in the game
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To a first approximation I honestly don’t care enough
It’s primarily a problem of intellectual interest for me, not moral
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