• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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…

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      8 months ago

      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.

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        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.