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.
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.