(It’s not really funny… )
Or funny in a “gotta laugh so I don’t cry” kinda way.
Right? Since we’re all screwed.
(almost all)
That whole academic greedwashing scam is collapsing now that Studiously Schlubby Sam’s cryptocurrency pyramid and Ponzi scheme has been exposed – not because it’s a bad idea to let grifting billionaires determine priorities for philanthropy and welfare and foreign aid but only because the FTX gravy train came to a screeching halt.
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Of course Peter Singer is involved in this movement. Singer is to philosophy what Larry Summers is to economics. And I see that Stephen Pinker has praised it too.
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Leftist infighting and splitting acrimoniously over the smallest of ideological and personal differences is a global and well-attested phenomenon.
And in another direction, you have way more in common with any single-digits millionaire than a billionaire.
I, don’t follow
Mocking how capitalism actually works - masters of the universe making bad predictions, creating bubbles and causing crashes due to irrational exuberance because their decisions are made by emotion and greed - not genius.
Represented by an image of Disco Stu in front of a chart that originally predicted that disco will never end with a chart showing some recent thing where a business is “in trouble” because they assumed that things would always be how they are - note the dates on the chart.
Ah. Knowing what the disco Stu reference was would have helped me.