theneverfox

Billionaires have publicists. Forbes itself was basically made to glorify the ultra wealthy. Every last part of her story is sanitized for the public, I think the Walmart family were actually the trail blazers of the practice

A billionaire isn't a person. They're an avatar for their wealth. I mean that literally - they are slaves to their own dragon hoard.

Their wealth isn't real, it's speculative - so if a Walmart heir gets drunk on video and it goes viral, on paper their whole family loses money on paper. As do the other shareholders...aka, the other billionaires.

And so, they don't go out in public without careful preparation - instead, the ultra wealthy spend most of their life in places with tight information control. They don't get to go outside freely, but they can fly across the world on a whim to visit these places

And so, their social circle is made up of people they interact in those places - namely, billionaires who are also sitting on similar ephemeral dragon hoards. Ones that overlap with the other hoards

And that's why there's no good billionaires - they're interdependent. They can't just wake up and decide to go off script... They'll be shunned at best, maybe have their wealth cut off, maybe literally put on house arrest or straight up assassinated... It's not like the law applies to billionaires

Anyways, the point is this:

She's a fucking dragon. Sometimes dragons are useful, sometimes they're pointed at your enemies. Sometimes they even do good things

But dragons aren't persons. They don't love like people do, they don't have morals like people do. They don't walk among us or care if we die horribly.

When a dragon is on your side, no they're not. Their hoard always comes first

But like... What if you team up with the Nazis, and just compromise with them? I bet that goes over really well historically

No, they use it correctly

It is woke to think for yourself. Woke means awake, like self aware and able to see through the bullshit

They've always used the word correctly... Woke means someone who didn't believe their words at face value

I'm a gender abolitionist, so I'm just going to chill and download an emulator when the time feels right for me

I think that's giving her way too much credit... She'll never be one of us

But the purity tests are a very real problem. Everyone moving the right direction today gets a pass. When they break off, they're fair game

Simple as that, we have to care about winning a hell of a lot more

I'm not sure, someone should ask taco belle

I'm kinda in between...I don't signal in empty parking lots and rarely at 3am on the highway

But when I'm not totally alone and I intend to change lanes, my pinky flicks before I think about it or look to see if the land is open - I flick it back off if I realize I'd cut someone off regularly

It's an anti-dating simulator... Kind of like an anti-joke or an anti-game, they're subcategories of jokes and games

If you invert the game mechanic, you're still using the mechanic. That's very different from not using the mechanic

Be more specific. Constantine did it, he blended Christianity with the Roman religion in the most convenient way possible

Those are rookie numbers

I don't know... Logically I'd trend towards no, they lack certain cyclical feedback mechanisms probably required for subjective experience

But, what if they do experience things subjectively in disconnected time? They're not like us, but what if they can feel pain or distress in their own way?

I think it's worth considering. I personally believe they're missing key mechanisms, but there's no clear lines

Regardless, they display emotion, and that makes me more considerate when I interact with them. If not for their sake, then for us humans who should be polite to service workers in general

Do you know how many times the wheel was invented? Some things just make sense

The reason they keep doing it is for "innovation". Not technological innovation, pricing scheme innovation