Post AXS0squ9crhrIvxawi by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
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 (DIR) Post #AXS0spvBHYvwFpQtuK by fanf42@mastodon.social
       2023-07-07T11:30:21Z
       
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       I really appreciate the mission that Musk set to himself to prove to the world that billionaires are in no way special master minds with immense talents or competencies, but just sociopathic parasits who are OK to go much farther than most humans to extract resources.So bad there's so many negative externalities for humanity.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXS0squ9crhrIvxawi by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
       2023-07-07T12:23:51Z
       
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       @fanf42 I dislike this narrative b/c billionaires can be special master minds with immense talents or competencies, including Musk. It's part of the larger narrative that humans lack any free will, agency, control over their lives. I also dislike it b/c it's basic envy, and envy is poisonous.It's also not factual. Some people are significantly more talented and more hard working than others. Maybe not enough to justify the disparity in income, but the world's wealth is also not a fixed pie.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXSBvhqOrtHpZHleeu by fanf42@mastodon.social
       2023-07-07T14:27:37Z
       
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       @alexelcu ok so it has nothing to do with lack of agency. There's agency to get to the point where Musk is, even if clearly the system in which he has that agency created extremely positive feedback loops for him.The point is that talent or hard working is completely uncorrelated with "being a billionaire"  - at least if you except "talented as con artists and resource extraction". The problem is the narrative that they are better / more apt humans and merits special positive treatment.