Comment by taurath
7 hours ago
That’s right, it’s an allocation of resources problem, and some people seem to control almost all the resources.
7 hours ago
That’s right, it’s an allocation of resources problem, and some people seem to control almost all the resources.
Even the most magnanimous allocators cannot defeat the realities of boots on the ground in terms of distribution. It is a very difficult problem that cannot be solved top down, the only solution we've seen is growth of economic activity via capitalistic means, lifting millions, billions out of poverty as Asia has done in the last century for example.
I argue that if you have literal hundreds of billions of hard cash to burn for stupid things like AI datacenters, you could afford to make the lives of millions of starving people not suck instead, pretty easily so. But to do that, you'd have to try, and that would mean actually doing something good for humanity. Can't have that as a billionaire.
Ok but what if I shoot a car into space and buy my own social media company. Surely thats a better use of billions!