They know. They are hoarding what they can while they can. They will sacrifice anyone and everything to be able to maintain some level of cushiness post civilization. Hopefully when all’s gone to shit there’s no monetary value for anything and their hired security turns on them when they realize there’s really no incentive to keep guarding some person or persons who have billions in the equivalent of Prussian Thalers.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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They want to become immortal god-kings again. Exactly as the wealthy and powerful have longed for since we built pyramids for their gilded carcasses.
Read the Singularity stuff from the past 20 years. They were talking back then how the first people to merge their minds with machine would likely ascend exponentially to live forever beyond us rabble.
~~Utopian~~ Dystopian
FTFY. I've seen the futures they want and it's all sweet and nice for a tiny, select few and the rest can just suffer while there is zero thought aoub keeping the environment alive
Thank you, no thank you
Lol, idiots. This is what happens when you lose touch with reality.
Case in point: These geniuses pushed seasteading for nearly a decade until they realized what everyone else did in the first minute of hearing the idea, that it is a dumb fucking thing to live on a floating trash heap to avoid normal amounts of regulation and participate in society. None of them ended up wanting to actually so the thing they were pushing.
How's their Utopian blockchain city idea going? The only IRL version, Prosperia in Honduras, is falling apart.
These people are fucking lunatics, simply by virtue of using abject wealth to push ideas that are idiotic on their face, over and over.
The real danger is when idiots enthralled by money are elected into power and taken by these people. The blind letting the blind, elected by the dumb.
Survival of the Richest by Douglass Rushkoff is another book on this topic. If you don’t wanna read the book, I recommend one of the many podcast interviews he’s done where he discusses it.
I don't think you can explain to normal people how these tech bros think.
Here you go: Imagine the greediest, most self-serving asshole you've ever met. Now imagine that asshole backed with an absurdly large pile of money.