WHATS THE POINT OF ALL THIS MONEY IF YOURE GOING TO SPEND YOUR TIME DOING A PODCAST???
They're not satisfied with merely ruling over us. They need to be loved.
Gul Dukat's portrayal on Star Trek Deep Space Nine was a good introduction to that pathology. :warf-wtf:
And it's funny how they haven't tried simply buying their way into the history books. Imagine if :melon-musk: led a battle against climate change and spent his enormous wealth doing that, he would go down as a hero in world history and be almost universally beloved until we inevitably learn about how terrible he actually was like an American Winston Churchill.
Still though, even today, no one is in any rush to tear down the Churchill statues.
Still though, even today, no one is in any rush to tear down the Churchill statues.
:I-was-saying:
I kid you not, the second I hit "post" I was waiting for this replay.
I'm willing to launch them into space with no plan for retrieval, sure
I could be persuaded by the theory that they need to be loved because when you work people harder for less while you live as an economic god, they become increasingly unsatisfied. The love is a way of assuaging the violence that historically follows the wealth inequality. There's probably coordinated efforts just like when they let those billionaires into the democratic primary in 2020. They must be selling you something, right? You don't get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation. If you see them, they're trying something.
You don’t get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation
Don't they tend to just inherit the family money and continue the practices of wealth accumulation and labor exploitation that capital has worn into a familiar path
It's funny because all the forces of accumulation, you'd think they'd lose their essential humanity once they reached the top, and yet, they still are unsatisfied and long for a deep human connection.
It's nuts. They fucking won at capital, did all the dehumanizing shit, and then fucking want what they are helping destroy
my liberal grandpa who's gone to AA meetings for 40 years refuses to agree with me that capitalism is the problem and just thinks the problem is "wealth addicts." he projects his problems onto jeff bezos which is kinda sad. But every now and then I think about that framing while keeping in mind the larger systemic issue of capitalism. The idea that these people just need wealth addiction rehab is funny.
The idea that these people just need wealth addiction rehab is funny
I actually agree with this they might need some sort of second education to explain why their priorities are self destructive
I'm sure there's a word for that
I’m sure there’s a word for that
I believe it's called the Barbara Pit. Which is also a killer drag queen name, now that I think about it.
It’s kind of funny that his billions in the form of ownership of meta depend on him going on a pathetic press junket to get roganites to use his stupid headset.
this is what people mean when they say money can't be happiness
Life sure sucks if you're in economic precarity, but with some grit* and creativity**, you too can join the ranks of these emotionally-stunted husks!
What? You want just enough to be comfortable and enjoy life? And you think that should be the norm? Pfft.
ok whichever one of us keeps punching Mark in the stomach great job
Doing good, but maybe try to work it up to some major organ damage.
I remember reading some article where employees described interactions with him where he just stares at them that they referred to as "The Eye of Sauron" :side-eye-2:
If that is the one thing that actually works from Meta, that it traps his soul forever in this pain im all for it.
Onion article idea:
Zuckerberg: "I have spent my entire adult life in a sterile-yet-grotesque self-designed psychic prison, and in the Metaverse, so can you"
Oh no I'm doing a public service by running my awful business into the ground
I've got good news for him. After the revolution he will feel much better, as he will be sent to Idaho to do real honest manual farm labour as part of the effort to rehabilitate him into normal society.
genuinely think that, after their wealth is expropriated and they're forced to join the rest of humankind in common prosperity, most of these people would be much happier. the forces that drive them to live like dragons are internally corrosive.
while that might be true if such a rehab process was actually carried out, these people would rather die than allow that to happen, and besides, they've already killed so many through social murder and sometimes direct murder.
Pretty sure people like him would either die in the revolution or flee the country and wouldn't return to a socialist one.
Pretty sure people like him would either die in the revolution
I doubt it I just can't picture him joining a white militia. He's not exactly an aristocrat who grew up with guns
Lol I wasn't suggesting he would join the revolution - the revolution would come to him.
