NEarly three years ago, I started working on a book idea. It started with a rather benign proposal. “We’re in a class war, but it’s a strange war because one side is strangely shy.” Once upon a time, the capital class was in power. In the past, a library and vast grounds were built here. Previously, I would tell them that I thought it was good and why. Now they are like ghosts because on one side they are billionaires and on the other side they are other people. They may talk about their ideas in Ted Talks and Davos, but that can’t be reality. All they care about, they say, is solving climate change, solving inequality, and bringing about world peace. Strangely, that never happens.
I dragged my feet a little, but in doing so, the millionaire’s voice got louder and perhaps truer to who he really is. President Vladimir Putin, who is estimated to be worth billions, invaded Ukraine. Elon Musk bought Twitter. It has been revealed that Sam Bankman Freed is not a billionaire and that his billions belong to others, are fictitious, are valued in cryptocurrencies, or all three. It turned out to be one of the following. And many of his illusions about his future were shattered by this incident. Same legal proceedings: The plan described in the memo is to “purchase the sovereign nation of Nauru to construct a ‘bunker/shelter’ to be used in some event where between 50% and 99.99% of the people die.” is. That most EAs (effective altruists) will survive,” and that “we will develop sensible regulations for human genetic enhancement and build laboratories there.”
This same memo states, “There are probably other things that would be beneficial to do with sovereign states.” It distilled the mind map of the billionaire class into a single paragraph: apocalyptic fantasy and a bunker future. An ardent belief in one’s own genetic superiority. Hatred of a sovereignty higher than our own. And a child can even call himself a “competent altruist” just because he fabricates a net worth high enough to help others while at the same time planning for a future in which everyone else perishes. A glaring lack of introspection. .
It turns out that many billionaires were planning for the event that would kill 50-99.99% of us all. A surprising number of people had private islands or were looking for one. Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, split up and traveled to New Zealand with the intention of spending half a day in a bunker. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa was by no means the only ‘rich man’ to attempt a jump into space, but he posted on YouTube about an expedition rumored to have cost him $80 million (£62 million). He was the only one. , to the International Space Station.
“I wasn’t thrilled at all,” he said. “It’s normal for us men to feel happy masculinity when we wake up in the morning.” However, after two weeks on the ISS, “the energy of masculinity greets me.” He never gave it to me.”
What they are running away from is civilization, the rule of law, and other people. they are trying to escape from us
Predictably, and even worse, the lack of gravity caused his penis to float upwards, disrupting perspective and making him look like a child…I couldn’t be sure I was a man in space. “he concluded.
What does it mean to you whether a billionaire can get an erection in space? Yet another childish lack of remorse. Between that and the coming apocalypse, bunkers, private islands, space exploration, dreams of colonizing and living in the ocean, and land wars, I can’t help but notice what they’re trying to escape from. It was. Civilization, the rule of law, other people, frankly us. They are trying to escape from us.
Add in their dreams of living forever and having dozens of children, and the situation becomes even clearer. they hate us. They are not neutral towards us. We are more than just a fly on your windshield. They believe that any one of them who lives to be 700 years old is of infinite value to us in our prime. They think their children are more precious than our children. Maybe some billionaires don’t hate us or dream of our downfall. But even one should be a red flag.
Then, on November 6th, I realized that the ship had set sail. This is now an open secret. The whole world has watched Mr. Musk take control of a mature democracy, but one look at his face and you can tell he hates us. You don’t even have to scroll through his X feed.
My procrastination wasn’t just a waste (although there was definitely some). It was that I couldn’t keep thinking about this hater for five minutes without being distracted by something I loved. So without a doubt, Musk is faster, more ambitious, and more capable than me, but I’m happier than him. Let’s steal this uncharacteristically hilarious line from Albert Camus. In the midst of this millionaire winter, there is an invincible summer in me, and perhaps in you.
That’s great, but we still have an all-powerful class war.
Zoe Williams is a columnist for the Guardian
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