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Only morons are motivated by money that will be earned by destroying the civilization that confers value on that money in the first place.

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But there is also a chance that you get insanely rich and the world isn't destoyed! It's the entire logic of SV and VC.

Sounds like they would drown a puppy in a tub to make a buck. Seriously what is the point of money if the world sucks?

If you're the 0.01% it's not going to suck.

That’s what everyone thinks until they are alone in a desert or in the middle of the woods. If they think they will have fun alone in a bunker instead of flying to Milan and Bali they will be in for a rude awakening.

Well, I'm not going to die. Other's might, but I'll be rich either way.

Or: Global warming just means I'll have to sell my beach house for a villa on a hill and leave the AC on a little longer.

Rich doesn’t mean anything if there’s nothing to buy and no one to enjoy it with. I guess they don’t think the will get stuck in the consequences. So did Marie Antoinette. Things are stable until they are not and then they move fast. Sure they may flee to a bunker, but they assume their pilot will fly them rather than hand them to a mob.

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