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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Yep, that's definitely confirmed by the work conditions he fosters.

/s

[–] isekaihero@ani.social 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

I strongly disagree. We need to focus more on quality of life than population. If humanity grows to a trillion people 999.9 billion of us will be living in coffin-sized apartments and eating that runny white goop that fed people in the Matrix.

I would rather have 1 billion humans and everyone lives the American Dream for real.

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[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Human beings can only live abput two years at most in micro gravity. On return after said two years they are effectively paralyzed and have to endure months of physiotherapy just to be able to walk again.

We will never "live" in space or the "solar system", the only place we can live is this planet and anybody telling you otherwise is lying to you.

They do want you in micro gravity though. Besos has on his blue origin website that they plan on having heavy industry in orbit and basically the prols will work in orbit so the planet can remain clean for the rich.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You are not ever going to have another Einstein since as soon as they prove useful the cretins like bozoes would use them for something that would not allow for the free thought that would come up with decent ideas.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How many Mozarts and Einsteins are pissing in bottles in your warehouses, Jeff?

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They would say none, because Einstein made it out of the patent office and if you're still stuck in the patent office, you aren't Einstein. Brilliance must always rise to the top. Bezos is at the top, so in his mind he's brilliant. In his mind, there's no world where he isn't who he is today.

Remember there's no empathy or understanding.

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

The ironic thing is that Einstein would disagree with Bezos and Einstein is his example of the worlds smartest man.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

To put it another way: we don't need a trillion people to find more Master Artists and Master Scientists, we need more Equality of Opportunity and a system that rewards Art and Science, both the very opposite what has made this "gentleman" as rich as he is, of what he promotes with his own words and using the parts of Press he bought and what he tells the politicians he has in this pocked to do.

He is literally one of the biggest individual forces pushing away from the very outcome he claims to want.

The hypocrisy of this asshole and others like him is mind-boggling.

[–] tedcurran@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

How many Jeffrey Epsteins and Martin Shkrelis would we have BTW?

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We very literally already have 1000 Motzarts and 1000 Einsteins. They are poor and working in your wearhouses and have no means or free time to pursue the fields they would accel in.

Pay your taxes Jeff.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They literally could not give a fuck if there's a Mozart out there.

This is the same shit that happened with Nazis. They decided that classical art is the only "real" art and anything that was modern at the time was "degenerate art".

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441

They want people that worship the traditional art that fuels nationalism, like Greek statues that are bleached white. They like the idea of classical art, that a perfect homogeneous society existed before them that they can re-achieve.

They hate all varieties of modern art because it's either hard to understand, or it might even conflict with their nationalism.

They want to dip their toes into what they think art should be, not embrace what it is.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

I hope he clones a trillion of himself and they all end up killing each other fighting for the top spot of best sociopath in the solar system.

[–] marighost@piefed.social 264 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Imagine how many more Mozarts and Einsteins we could have if we removed barriers like poverty and hunger and allowed everyone to have a fair shot at life.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago

And if we cooperated instead of antagonizing each other (which happens under this capitalist system) we could probably collectively achieve even more than 1000 "mozarts" could do

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

Exactly this

We have so much untapped potential in the world because of the system he is a product of. The vast majority of people have to spend most of their time and effort on general survival. There's diminishing amounts of time and effort that average Joe can actually spend on intellectual and artistic pursuits orthogonal to their source of income. Hell, just fucking having hobbies is becoming a bit of a privileged position in 2026, which is frankly a desolate place we've managed to take civilisation.

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 49 points 1 day ago

lol, literally the quote by Stephen Jay Gould.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould#Quotes

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

That's interesting. I think we should have 0 'Jeff Bezos'es in the solar system.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"I'd love to breed a trillion humans and harvest only the extreme minority of specialized high performers to help me accomplish the things I can't do myself while I ignore the conditions of life for the 99.999% who I don't consider to have any value."

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 127 points 1 day ago

We probably already have thousands of them out there but they never recieved the education they would have needed to unlock their potential and or are too busy surviving in abject poverty to contribute to the advancement of humanity.

Because shitheads like him hoard all the money and do everything they can so others around them are stuck in the poverty trap so they can use them as cheap, desperate and exploitable labor.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (21 children)

Above a certain point in wealth one's income is basically a slice of the wealth everybody produces, so the more the people the more wealth in aggregated they produce, the faster these types increase their wealth.

It's the reason why countries' GDPs are quoted as a whole rather than per-capita basis - whilst per-capita is what matters to most people as individuals (ideally the median rather than the mean), for those in power and the local elites it's the entire country's GDP that matters because their power and wealth is linked to the whole quite independently of how many people are producing it (think of it this way: market dominance, political influence, Press control and other forms of controlling how much wealth one gets are mainly country-specific or at least have less "power transmission" between countries than they do inside countries, so given that those tools to extract a slice of country-wide wealth are mainly country-specific, more people in that country means more returns from having such tools).

For the very rich immigration is always desirable even when importing people with lower formal education and less well integrated than the locals - even if the average productivity goes down (and hence per-capita GPD) because the newer, less expert and less well integrated workers, produce less wealth per-person that those already in the local worker pool, for those getting a slice of the aggregated wealth produced in a country even a little more from lower productivity workers, is always more for them.

He wants a trillion prime memberships.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

That would also mean a thousand Jeff Bezos'! Stop advancing humanity before it's too late!! /s

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. Most of them are stuck working at an Amazon warehouse.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

... and 990 billion cheap, exploitable slaves, of course.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

Space Nutter, hm?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

So tired of watching these dipshit's fortunes detach them from reality.

The narcissism is so off the charts that the idea of death must be utterly terrifying to them. You know this chode is going to put himself on ice at the end in the hopes he can get a new body in the future without recognizing that the future is going to be a dystopian shithole or arid wasteland.

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