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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd say Western civilization died when people started being worth more than they could ever possibly spend in a hundred lifetimes.

I wonder what Elon would know about such things...

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To live your life sure, but it'd actually pretty easy to spend it if you wanted to spend it.

You could easily dump a couple hundred billion into fusion research for example.

If it worked well you'd probably become a trillionaire, but no guarantes there.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

That's not the kinda stuff that should be dictated by individual people just because they are rich, but by a democracy and/or a team of experts.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are wealthy people in every civilization though?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Every civilization is not Western civilization.