And it’s funny how they haven’t tried simply buying their way into the history books. Imagine if :melon-musk: led a battle against climate change and spent his enormous wealth doing that, he would go down as a hero in world history and be almost universally beloved until we inevitably learn about how terrible he actually was like an American Winston Churchill.

Still though, even today, no one is in any rush to tear down the Churchill statues.

Let’s sacrifice them to the Pah-Wraiths

I could be persuaded by the theory that they need to be loved because when you work people harder for less while you live as an economic god, they become increasingly unsatisfied. The love is a way of assuaging the violence that historically follows the wealth inequality. There’s probably coordinated efforts just like when they let those billionaires into the democratic primary in 2020. They must be selling you something, right? You don’t get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation. If you see them, they’re trying something.

my liberal grandpa who’s gone to AA meetings for 40 years refuses to agree with me that capitalism is the problem and just thinks the problem is “wealth addicts.” he projects his problems onto jeff bezos which is kinda sad. But every now and then I think about that framing while keeping in mind the larger systemic issue of capitalism. The idea that these people just need wealth addiction rehab is funny.

Maybe give him the Houdini treatment.