I mean imagine being that rich, but not a single friend left who says, here look at the back of the envelope calculation here. Doesn’t even think to hire someone empowered to point out obvious gaps in thinking, to avoid smart-person in one domain not smart in all domains trap.
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Extreme wealth and power (and fame) are genuinely a type of impoverishment. I know, I know: people are wishing I wish I had that problem. I can understand wanting to be comfortably wealthy. But it seems pretty clear the extreme end isn’t a blessing. Very hard to escape its swamp.
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Structurally, it's just one more instance of our inequality-fueled asset-bubble(s). Tulips, $100+ million paintings, subprime-mortage crisis, dot-com boom/bust, Juicero, this. All related. Mozarts among the trillions in space/no of angels on pinheads.https://twitter.com/EdMillerPoker/status/1126850800381153281 …
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Good god!
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This begs the question: Is Bezos a Trump in the making?
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Different lane.
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Half the smart people I know say weird stuff like this all the time and don’t really listen when called out by peers. Only the rich ones get their weird thoughts breathlessly reported.
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Yep that’s the smart/knowledgeable in domain, doesn’t understand/accept it doesn’t effortlessly transfer to every other domain trap. I see this all the time among smart/accomplished people. With wealth/power/fame, what hope there’s for corrective mechanisms apparently disappears.
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imagine being able to focus on that possibility and completely ignore the planet we’re in where Gaza Mozart is blown to bits and Honduran Mozart is raped in a dark location, Yemeni Mozart is fragged, Israeli Mozart gets rocketed
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All of these tech types want to live forever in an ideal future of their own creation out in space, yet none want to make life better right now on Earth
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