This is how humanity’s story ends, with proudly irresponsible capitalists with god complexes harnessing and packaging technologies they don’t even care to understand or consider the consequences of, believing society will pay to repair any “externality” they cause.
Greedy, impulsive monkeys with nukes.
When a human takes in a dog and makes it tame, the dog stays in a juvenile state of mind. It never grows up.
That’s sort of what happens to young people who get rich. They don’t grow up. They don’t take responsibility. They’re very successful in business because capitalism rewards ruthless behaviour. They’re tamed by capital.
They are rich in money, but ignorant and poor in morality.
This domesticated dog thing is an interesting comparison, and it rings true to me. Only these billionaire dogs are far more dangerous than even a rabid dog.
They lack the empathy, values, and understanding that comes from growing up a normal working class person. Yet, they think of themselves as “six sigma elites” who have clawed their way up to the top of the evolutionary food chain. They are really just spoiled undeveloped man-child types with access to power and toys no one person should have access to.
They are like evil demi-gods. Too much power, not enough humanity.
I should probably add: Bezos grew up on a “farm” but it was really just a fantasy role play kind of thing that was built by his rich grandfather. Yes, he worked very hard on that farm. But his survival didn’t depend on it. He was still born with every advantage that a real farmer from “back in the day” would not have.
I wish he was still-born
lol, right there with ya
What a great metaphor that makes sense of so much of what I’ve seen. I grew up pretty privileged but my family fell on hard times in my teenage years. I see people I knew as a child or people from similar backgrounds and it’s clear that they are developmentally stunted in some way I couldn’t quite put my finger on but it makes sense in the context you described; their privilege has given them a protected, juvenile mentality. I actually had a conversation with my dad once that a silver lining of our tough times is I didn’t end up like “such-and-such” idiots we just ran into.