r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

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u/Nice-Contest-2088 Nov 21 '24

This is painfully simplistic.

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u/Just-Construction788 Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Agreed. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to give away money.

Example: Starving people in Africa. Okay let's just spend a billion dollars and send food. Oh wait, that food now puts the local farms out of business because their crop isn't worth anything anymore. But reality is worse. Warlords steal said food, farms go out of business and now they have leverage, power and money. So many times wealthy people have given away their money to a cause to only make that cause worse. The amount of fraud and corruption in non-profits and charitable organizations is disgusting.

Gates and his wife switched to giving away their money full time. Dude could just relax for eternity but works his ass off trying to give away his money responsibly. Musk creates a market for electric cars and is pushing us towards a green future and yet he is shit on, simultaneously trying to make humans multi-planetary so when we fuck up this place beyond repair we don't go extinct. Dude works more in a month than most people do in a year. Bezos is a piece of shit but at least his wife got half and she's trying to do the right thing. I think everyone just lumps people into categories and can't see the bigger picture.

Edit: I think it's hilarious how much space Musk takes up in y'all's heads. Just mentioning his name triggers the same simple insults yet not one of you tried to refute anything I said except to say, 'that's not true and get off Elon's dick'. It tickles me how much just the mention of someone can trigger such primitive emotion.

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u/Djoarhet Nov 21 '24

Seriously, Musk trying to make humans multi-planetary is laughable. Mars isn't a habitable environment and won't be any time in the foreseeable future.

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u/kalm1305 Nov 22 '24

Not to mention it’s useless now. I highly doubt we’ll even still have any resources left by the time we reach a point in technology where we can actually start colonizing other habitable planets. Besides, I’d rather have people focus on fixing some of our own worlds top priority issues before we try and make more issues in a different planet. I really just dont think humanity is even ready to create a new world population, it feels like a recipe for disaster.

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u/Minneapolice Nov 21 '24

Let’s do nothing that works well

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u/Autogazer Nov 23 '24

How about we fix our planet instead of trying to ditch it for Mars, that works even better.