- The last panel gives me some Tom Perkins vibes (and makes me want some orcas). Web engine searches find two pages of gushing memories of Tom Perkins and his yachts before I finally found any mention of his 1996 manslaughter conviction for killing someone in a smaller boat who was in his boat's way.
@jensorensen. I feel this is a facade, they use 'Humanity' as a 'blanket statement', or 'blanket term' which they'll use to cover up their real motives, just like how people say in the name of 'democracy'. Please don't get me wrong there's actually really good wealthy people out there doing good things for humanity and have good intentions but are tarnished because of the bad ones.
It is amazing how the industrial billionaires have successfully diverted our attention to focus only on tech billionaires. Industrial billionaires have successfully bought themselves power for decades. They are quietly pointing us to look at the brash, flashy egotism of the tech Bro$.
I understand that only the younger tech bro$ have the face recognition needed for a cartoon to work. Only Charles Koch is alive. I'm not sure I would recognize any of the old money billionaires until a few were outed buying SCOTUS. members.
Anyone remember the scene in Elysium where the machine told the protagonist he was exposed to radiation and was going to die, then dispensed a bottle of painkillers to help him check out? That is the best few seconds of near-future commentary I've seen lately.
Probably because despite of their claims, billionaires don't want to "help humanity", they want to "help" other privileged billionaires with "problems" they perceived as theirs.
And they create even more real problems in order to "solve" fictional ones, such "The problem is Earth, we need another planet", instead of "the problem is capitalism, our profits are not a reason to destroy the planet"…
@KatM @philip_cardella Where are you encountering this? It says your post was published using Toot! for iOS, is that what the screenshot is from? That is a third party app. The official Mastodon app does not have this issue.
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein expressed his interest in sending 1,000 people to a floating space colony in Venus’ atmosphere by the year 2050.
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Industrial billionaires have successfully bought themselves power for decades. They are quietly pointing us to look at the brash, flashy egotism of the tech Bro$.
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Only Charles Koch is alive. I'm not sure I would recognize any of the old money billionaires until a few were outed buying SCOTUS. members.
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •this attitude is called longtermism and most of the tech elite are subscribers
https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Jen Sorensen
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Probably because despite of their claims, billionaires don't want to "help humanity", they want to "help" other privileged billionaires with "problems" they perceived as theirs.
And they create even more real problems in order to "solve" fictional ones, such "The problem is Earth, we need another planet", instead of "the problem is capitalism, our profits are not a reason to destroy the planet"…
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Unknown parent • • •OceanGate Co-Founder Wants to Send 1,000 People to Venus—What Could Go Wrong?
Kevin Hurler (Gizmodo)