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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by bpodgursky on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:13AM (#25924892)
It's only a contradiction if you view the world extremely antagonistically — that Musk and Bezos have the prime and only goal of sitting on top of a pile of cash while the world burns around them.

If you see the world as Musk and Bezos building and deploying capital to build what they see as a better future, there's no contradiction at all. There's fierce disagreement about how we get to that future, but we all want the same general thing.

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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by BluSyn on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:31AM (#25924990)
Agreed. It's a logical fallacy. The article seems to cynically assume anyone who achieves great wealth must de-facto be in favor of the system that got them there, and couldn't possibly wish to build a more ideal world without being in contradiction with themselves.
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Re:The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans by throwaway316943 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:38PM (#25931164)
It’s an odd quirk of the average socialist/communist that they deride any individual attempting to improve the world while causing some negative economic side effects but they applaud totalitarian governments that take a stab at communism and murder millions of people in the process
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