Comment by FredPret
1 day ago
Musk waving a chainsaw is one out of many hundreds of millions of rich people. And there's reason to believe that he believes he's doing something that's good for society in the long run, even if you disagree with him.
1 day ago
Musk waving a chainsaw is one out of many hundreds of millions of rich people. And there's reason to believe that he believes he's doing something that's good for society in the long run, even if you disagree with him.
> that he believes he's doing something that's good
That seems entirely irrelevant? Pretty sure Napoleon, Stalin etc. did too.
> one out of many hundreds of millions
That’s like saying that the president of the US is one out of many millions of politicians..
It's not often I come across someone who so clearly identifies as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
By definition, 1% of the world's population is 80MM people, so your "hundreds of millions" statement bares your ideological slant more than you may realize.
Your comment has two lines but manages to be very puzzling indeed.
"temporarily embarrassed millionaire" is a term that bares your ideological slant, which I hope and I'm sure you realize. But that you pose our ideological differences as a problem is bizarre. You do realize the world contains left- and right-wingers, and that probably 90% of the population is somewhere in the middle, right? And that this is OK? Or do you insist that everyone see things 100% as you do?
Also, who said only the 1% is rich? If I say it's the top 2% then we're well into the hundreds of millions, no? And what about all the rich people who were alive in the past, can we not use their attitudes for our discussion too? And what if we pick a numeric cutoff to be considered rich, or a qualitative one?
Empathy is intelligence, a void of empathy is lack of intelligence. Empathy is the only means to "put your self in someone else's shoes".
I would also classify narcissism as a void of intelligence, they cannot be honest with others and themselves. They always must be right and know everything when they are wrong and know nothing about the subject.
Lacking empathy and being a narcissist does not benefit society, only one's self interests. That is billionaire, not millionaire, Elon Musk. He is just selling the idea of "doing something good" to improve his self interests.
How many charities does he fund? How much of with wealth goes to studying the eradication of disease like cancer or parkinson's?
But don't worry, his statement from 2014 about full self driving cars are just around the corner and will help humanity reach it's peak. Just like traveling to Mars. /s
His actions actually harm society. Hungry children have reduced mental capabilities to advance in school and their futures. He choose to actively harm future generations and those he doesn't deem worthy.
I feel an intense hatred for him and his "colleagues."
And I want to do something about his atrocious actions. But I'm afraid that the things I would do are as wrong as theirs.
I see it all the time on Reddit, on social media, and sometimes occasionally on this site when I was scrolling amongst it's various pages.
Some on the left claim "There's a reason for a 2nd amendment" or "Time to kill the rich" and more varying levels of obscene and violent rhetoric.
But there's a problem there, both sides are becoming more extreme, hateful, and violent; and from my perspective- perhaps others won't share mine- I see the world becoming more colder, becoming more cruel and hateful.
The world is losing its empathy, and as you wrote...
The world is becoming more stupid quite plainly.
And I want to do something about it, I try to research, to analyze, and I try to use what's left of my critical thinking skills that haven't already been eroded by social media and A.I.- But I just can't. I genuinely don't know what to do.
So here is my question, for others on this site:
What can we do about these outrageous individuals, pushing the U.S. and the world back generations and years of scientific advancements, how do we stop them?
And how do we stop the growing coldness that is growing slowly through the world?