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Comment by rorykoehler | Hacker News Reader

What i don't understand is why the mega rich don't realise that wealth inequality is hurting their quality of life too. Having a safer world benefits everyone.

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They literally don't live in the same reality the rest of us live in.

In the above talk[3], Blyth mentions how someone geolocated every mentioned location in the infamous Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks. The most frequent location mentioned across all the emails? "Martha" ['s vineyards]. The 2nd was "Hampton", followed by SF and NY. Everything[4] else was two standard deviations lower.

[4] I might be forgetting another city

I've spent time in both Marthas Vineyard and New York and can say that everyone in NYC would definitely benefit from having a more equitable society with less poverty.

Seriously. Find any CEO who makes 100m, and ask them when was the last time they had an actual in-person interaction with someone who made minimum wage or less.

The Silicon Valley elite are pretty well known (and often derided) for their support of redistributive liberal politics. It's not the "mega rich" that voted in the opposite direction.

Because, if it gets really bad.

They buy: security guards, self shooting drones and self shooting guns.

The type of guns and drones that shoot themselves?

That's my idea of a living hell. Who would want to deal with the thoughts around all that potential violence and aggression. This is exactly what I mean. We all have 2 things that are most valuable. Time and our health. Having all that security apparatus is not good for your mental health.

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