Most billionaires are the scums of the world, hording the wealth and spending it on stupid stuff while his employees who do the actual work get little to no credit and are payed much less.
He says ‘1000 Einsteins’, but surely thinks ‘1000 Bezoses’ because of course he thinks he’s a genius, and because there’ll be more new faces in the billionaire paedophilic orgies.
Assuming some aliens appeared out a thin air and gifted us fusion powered spacecraft and space elevator technology it would still take centuries to get to trillions of humans. These people really do talk utter shit.
I’m not sure that we ever would. Every country that gets healthcare and a standard of living above abject poverty drops their birthrates. I would hope with fusion power, there wouldn’t be a person on (or off) the planet going hungry.
But then again, Jeff Bezos exists, so we’ll still end up with 99% of the wealth in the hands of 1%.
You know we already probably have a bunch of Mozarts and Einsteins peeing in bottles to avoid getting dinged while driving Amazon Prime trucks because that’s the only way they can get by.
They’re almost certainly is a bunch of geniuses who were never appreciated because they spend their entire lives trying to get food and water because they were unfortunate enough to be born into Ethiopia. We could feed and house and educate these people if we really wanted to, to the benefit of not just themselves, but the entire species if they did turn out to be the next Einstein. Instead the likes of Jeff Bezos go on podcasts and talk about how wonderful the distant future is going to be, while at the same time being utterly unprepared to do anything about the problems we have right now.
Is space Karen actually paid his taxes we probably could build a base on Mars with that money.
I have to bite my tongue anytime someone mentions getting one or two day shipping. Like, you’re not going to die if you don’t get your RAM tomorrow ffs.
I legitimately would be okay with an “it gets to you within a month” option.
It’s not the next day delivery that’s the problem Amazon could totally offer that and not abuse their workforce. It would just cost them some more money so they don’t do it.
That’s a bit pedantic. It currently is an issue and Amazon isn’t going to change anytime soon.
modern einstein is trying to develop new ways to keep people hooked on a social media scroll. modern mozart is producing kpop or playing jazz/fusion in some club where they make $40 a night and then dying broke (like allan holdsworth).
but it’s true that most great brains probably never develop properly because the system tries its hardest to keep them stupid and in poverty.
the modern media landscape is all nepo babies and what does it get you? it gets you fuck all; everything is pathetic from top to bottom in every single artform but we’re acting like shit is normal.
God, remember when actors were expected to be able to dance and sing as well as act?
Did you guys know it’s possible to be rich and also just shut the fuck up?
he was literally on a podcast talking about Blue Origin and a distant future where humans have colonized multiple planets
You are not ever going to have another Einstein since as soon as they prove useful the cretins like bozoes would use them for something that would not allow for the free thought that would come up with decent ideas.
I strongly disagree. We need to focus more on quality of life than population. If humanity grows to a trillion people 999.9 billion of us will be living in coffin-sized apartments and eating that runny white goop that fed people in the Matrix.
I would rather have 1 billion humans and everyone lives the American Dream for real.
I would rather have 1 billion humans and everyone lives the American Dream for real.
Just gotta genocide a few billion people real quick.
I know I’m an asshole, but I was legitimately hoping that covid was going to wipe out a more significant amount. At least all the anti vaxxers, but that didn’t happen.
I’m the jackass that watched Endgame and was like “goddamn that abandoned neighborhood looks peaceful”.
We already have a 1000 mozarts but half of them are starving right now and then out of the other half 80% couldnt pursue their dreams
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Steven Jay Gould
Ramanujan died at 33 because of an impoverished childhood.
And Bezos is pushing for genAI, so they will be pushed out by genAI slop.
Human beings can only live abput two years at most in micro gravity. On return after said two years they are effectively paralyzed and have to endure months of physiotherapy just to be able to walk again.
We will never “live” in space or the “solar system”, the only place we can live is this planet and anybody telling you otherwise is lying to you.
They do want you in micro gravity though. Besos has on his blue origin website that they plan on having heavy industry in orbit and basically the prols will work in orbit so the planet can remain clean for the rich.
I hope he clones a trillion of himself and they all end up killing each other fighting for the top spot of best sociopath in the solar system.
That would also mean a thousand Jeff Bezos’! Stop advancing humanity before it’s too late!! /s
Above a certain point in wealth one’s income is basically a slice of the wealth everybody produces, so the more the people the more wealth in aggregated they produce, the faster these types increase their wealth.
It’s the reason why countries’ GDPs are quoted as a whole rather than per-capita basis - whilst per-capita is what matters to most people as individuals (ideally the median rather than the mean), for those in power and the local elites it’s the entire country’s GDP that matters because their power and wealth is linked to the whole quite independently of how many people are producing it (think of it this way: market dominance, political influence, Press control and other forms of controlling how much wealth one gets are mainly country-specific or at least have less “power transmission” between countries than they do inside countries, so given that those tools to extract a slice of country-wide wealth are mainly country-specific, more people in that country means more returns from having such tools).
For the very rich immigration is always desirable even when importing people with lower formal education and less well integrated than the locals - even if the average productivity goes down (and hence per-capita GPD) because the newer, less expert and less well integrated workers, produce less wealth per-person that those already in the local worker pool, for those getting a slice of the aggregated wealth produced in a country even a little more from lower productivity workers, is always more for them.
He wants a trillion prime memberships.
Probably a really stupid question, but why is the median used for wealth and GDP rather than the mean (with the top and bottom sliced out)?
The wealth distributions are so called “normal” statistical distributions (basically a peak in the middle with a low on each side), so most people are at and around the central peak whilst only a few people are at the extremes, and in these the median which is at the top of the peak tells you the most common situation. Meanwhile for wealtht the mean is just mathematically the total wealth divided by the number of people.
In other words, the median tells you the most common situation, whilst the mean tells you how much is the total wealth divided by the total number of people (for wealth a purelly mathematical value which doesn’t really represent any human situation).
(Edit: changed maths below for clarity)
An example - if there are 10 people with 1 chicken each and 1 person with 100 chickens
- The mean says that each person has 10 chickens ( (10*1 + 100) / 11), so 10x the chickens than the reality for 10 out of 11 people.
- The median says that each person has 1 chicken, as that’s how many chickens the person in the middle of a list ordered by number of chickens has.
Going back to wealth, one stupidly rich person and a lot of very poor people produces a mean were they’re all supposedly middle-class - which is not at all representative of the wealth of most people - whilst it produces a median which says the most common situation is to be poor.
This extreme example, by the way, is very close to the situation in the US - most people in America are (according to some OECD data somebody posted here a couple of days ago) poorer than for example the Portuguese (pretty much the tail of Europe), but the mean of wealth for America says that per-capita Americans are almost 3x as wealthy than the Portuguese, and the reason for this is that America is WAY more unequal than Portugal, so whilst most Americans are poorer than most Portuguese, the small fraction at the top which is the upper-middle class in America is much better off that the same in Portugal and a handful of Americans at the very top are incredibly more wealthy than the wealthiest Portuguese.
Can you please change this to 11 people with 100 chickens so I can just take the 6th persons chicken count instead of averaging it with the 5ths person chicken count to determine the median?
Sure.
I appreciate you.
We should all “treat others the same as we want to be treated ourselves” and I got the impression that the way I had done it got on your nerves, same as some things a bit “out of place” get on mine.
There’s a great comedian complaining she didn’t initially get her autism diagnosis because when the psychologist asked her, “Do the tags on the back of her shit bother you?” she answered simply, “No.” When she found out that not having sensory issues was what her denied her the diagnosis, she snapped, “Of course the tags don’t bother me! I have a system!”
I’m coming to grips with the fact that I have a lot–but not all–of the traits of autism. I realize that as an adult, I probably have at least a few more than I’m immediately aware because I’ve been subconsciously avoiding situations that trigger my autism, so this week, this week I’m letting my freak flag fly to see what’s beneath the mask.
How many Mozarts and Einsteins are pissing in bottles in your warehouses, Jeff?
They would say none, because Einstein made it out of the patent office and if you’re still stuck in the patent office, you aren’t Einstein. Brilliance must always rise to the top. Bezos is at the top, so in his mind he’s brilliant. In his mind, there’s no world where he isn’t who he is today.
Remember there’s no empathy or understanding.
The ironic thing is that Einstein would disagree with Bezos and Einstein is his example of the worlds smartest man.
To put it another way: we don’t need a trillion people to find more Master Artists and Master Scientists, we need more Equality of Opportunity and a system that rewards Art and Science, both the very opposite what has made this “gentleman” as rich as he is, of what he promotes with his own words and using the parts of Press he bought and what he tells the politicians he has in this pocked to do.
He is literally one of the biggest individual forces pushing away from the very outcome he claims to want.
The hypocrisy of this asshole and others like him is mind-boggling.
Space Nutter, hm?
