I read a wonderful short story once about mankind venturing into the stars where they become a symbol of hope, friendliness, and community across all physical and psychological barriers. They would be the ones you turn to in times of crisis, to deliver aid and make repairs, to mediate in times of conflict and to bring joy in times of celebration.
However, occasionally, the humans would see one of their own ships adrift in the sea of stars, and they would stop at nothing to destroy it. The abrupt and merciless hostility would always shock onlookers and associates. “Why” they always ask. The answer was always the same; “when the earth was suffering, they used up our resources and left us behind.”
Got a link or a name for this story? I’d like to read it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
That’s too generous.
I think they already do, hence the private islands and Bond villain style lairs.
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.
Hard to argue with that actually. I’m going to go with they’re some terrible type of worm, slug, or parasite rather than human beings.
They never had any humanity to begin with. It is the only way to become a Billionaire.
Thiel has worried that Western civilization had entered a period of long-term stagnation in the 1970s which will continue unless there is a radical shake-up. This stagnation has many dimensions: lower economic growth, fewer world-changing scientific discoveries, and a general cultural malaise.
Imagine looking back at the proud of time where there was literally the most advances in the wildest technology and thinking it’s stagnation. It was from a time period where people remembered refrigeration as new and exciting to the time where your phone has more computing power than the ones that put people on the moon, and it’s in your freaking pocket, and say that technology stagnated.
As for the lower economic growth and the “stagnating” culture, that’s squarely on the shoulders of corporations, and therefore, billionaires.
On the scientific discoveries, we have gotten the low hanging fruit. The twentieth century was remarkable, but the limitations of physics are harsh. A lot of excitement as we went from barely pulling off heavier than air flight to a moon landing in under 50 years. Media naturally imagined space exploration to be just a matter of time. Alas everything is exponentially harder and any further loopholes are supremely elusive.
Probably the one area with a great deal of unrealized potential would be biology, because the ethical easy forward is slow.
“If the billionaires are so determined on quitting humanity, perhaps it would be best to give them what they want and sponsor a mission to Mars so humanity can rid itself of them.”
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A second time.
The first time was stealing from everybody to become billionaires in the first place.
as a german I am very sorry to the world for Peter Thiel, Trumps bloodline, Hitler and a shit ton more. We are bad exporters as it turns out
Let them be cake
Steps to become a billionaire:
- Abandon humanity
- Step-on children’s smiles
- Fund a feasibility study on turning poor into fuel
- Second study to prove those idiots in the first study wrong
- Replace gym equipment in second home with dogs you can kick and hit for exercise. The dogs must be trained service animals in active service to people who need them. You bankrupt those people at great personal expense and then you buy their dogs for pennies.
- Lunch
- Become billionaire
- Take cool pictures with swords. Don’t show nobody.
- Abandon humanity
- Something kardashian related
Then maybe we should start relieving them of theirs
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That’s because, and I’ll speak loudly for those in the back, THEY DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU
Perhaps they don’t have human rights now? Means unaliving them would be legal and their weath is ours for the taking.
