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Advancing humanity (lemmy.ml)

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I believe the propaganda here is idea that some people are born special, brighter than every one else.

The message here is not that Bezos wants a trillion humans, the message is that the majority of people are not special and will never archive greatness (like him)

Rich people love to think they belong to this special group but it’s not real, all humans have the capacity to archive greatness if only given the resources to not only survive but thrive.

If everyone had acces to free and quality education, healthcare and food we could have more than a thousand Einsteins and Mozarts right now.

Once everyone is able to archive greatness, it becomes the norm, therefore the rich no longer able to justify their wealth by claiming to be geniuses. Helping the poor thrive and become not poor is a direct threat to their ego and status.

Edit: Wholesome to realise i am the fourth person to comment this. Positivity woke!

[–] manxu@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You said way more than the other ones, namely that the Jeff Bezos of the world believe themselves part of a superior humanity that allows them to treat the rest like garbage.

The reason Mozart became a great composer is that he pissed on his employer's working conditions and went rogue. His Bezos treated him to a kick in the ass, literally, administered on his behalf. Allegedly.

The reason Einstein became a great physicist is that he got an outstanding public education and then worked a government job to make ends meet. The same government jobs that Bezos and Musk wanted to cut last year.

Bezos is not part of a special superhumanity. He is an extremely privileged lottery winner that is too vain to admit he got lucky and now pretends his opinion matters. As the meme states, the only useful thing he can provide is tax money.

[–] keiko@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

the only useful thing he can provide is tax money.

Not true. He and a select few others are in the process of providing the great collapse.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

$0.02: above average intelligence is abundant. The opportunities and support that enable those people to achieve greatness (read: privilege), are not. This situation will only get worse with the like of Bezos squeezing the people that work for them. This "1000 Mozarts" line only serves to illustrate how intellectually bankrupt this person is.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

how intellectually bankrupt this person is

When you have endless money and are surrounded by people fighting to give you handjobs all day, every day you tend to lose touch with reality and common sense.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 29 points 1 day ago

This you?

Amazon’s turnover and injury rates are so high they risk running out of workers to hire

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 26 points 1 day ago

And we'd have more Mozarts and Einsteins right now if people were free from the burden of worry about survival.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can never take anyone who complains about "Eco Fascists" that want a lower human population seriously because I always have to consider if they're getting their views downstream of Bezos or Musk. The Elite want higher populations so we have to fight each other. Every time in history when there's been a workers deficit, the workers got more right.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A 1000 Hitlers, a 1000 Epsteins, a 1000 Bezos

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Imagine a world with just a million people, 0 hitlers, 0 epsteins, 0 Bezos, 0 Trumps, 0 musks.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Saw this prick talking about nurses making like 30k a year having to pay like 12k in taxes and that "it didn't make sense." Motherfucker makes billions and pays less taxes than the nurse he says shouldn't have to pay so much taxes.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Funny how he also happens to be one of the worlds largest employers and also has one of the biggest amounts of customers. Wonder if he secretly would like anything else from those 9,999,999,998,000 people.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Misquote, he clearly said "one thousand Epsteins" while fondling himself

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I heard him say Epsteins as well. Didn't see the fondling part, so that day was a good day for my brain and eyes.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

What he is actually thinking is he needs more slaves for wearhouses some Amazon and it's shit working conditions has already churned through the entire labor pool in some markets.

[–] slemptastrophe@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Let's focus on building the solar system with less Bezos-es.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 day ago

He doesn't want Mozart's or Einstein's, he and other parasites like him want slaves and a trillion people with the debt boot on their throats is paradise for him and hell for everyone else.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

This is complete gacha thinking. "Every 10 pulls guarantees a four-star ~~character~~ intellect".

How many people must be crammed on an overdrawn planet to pull Raiden Shogun, Jeff?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

JoeRoganization is the carcinization equivalent for the wealthy.

Geared up, brained down.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 day ago

We could have a THOUSAND Mozarts if we ~~FUNDED youth Education!~~ ~~FUNDED youth Healthcare!~~ ~~FUNDED the Arts!~~ Had LOTS of ~~Workers!~~ Babies!

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Name one Mozart composition or one Einstein scientific publication by title. Fucking populists.

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

Ehh, finding these mozarts and einsteins will be near impossible because their upbringing will be impoverished and school results are more dependant on wealth than intelligence.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he said "a one thousand"?

what a fucking chud. speaks like he looks.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He likely said 'a thousand' but whoever wrote this article failed English and never learned to write out numbers.

The only numbers I should see in an article are things people already expect to see as numbers, like dates (dd/mm/yy) or the time of day.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t there a style rule where if it’s a number greater than ten you use digits?

Though if you say a thousand, that’s different than saying “a 1,000” which is saying “a one thousand”, which you wouldn’t write.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not that I'm aware of, I was always taught to write out any number because it helps with the reader maintaining flow while reading. For the exact reasons we're discussing here, 'a thousand' and 'a 1,000' are functionally the same - but one breaks the readers train of thought a lot more easily than the other. Whereas dates and times are used so frequently that writing out 31/12/2026 or 10:00 AM really doesn't impact their ability to read them on a page.

At least, that's what I was taught. Maybe there's a different line of thinking I'm not aware of, though the rule you're talking about sounds like a business English rule - and I disagree with business English.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You talk about reader maintaining flow. And I think for exactly that reason you are supposed to use digits when the number is of a certain size. Like if I say, there are six hundred and seventy three buildings in the city. To me it’s much clearer to write there are 673 buildings in the city. Whatever “rule” I’m thinking of I seem to recall you spell out smaller numbers. Like you would write “there are three files” as opposed to “there are 3 files.” Everyone at work does the latter which always annoys me, though they also commit much more egregious mistakes in their emails and other writings.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I think this is ultimately a difference of opinion, and potentially a difference in how we learn to read in modern day - because while 673 is technically succinct, I wouldn't say it flows better than six hundred and seventy three.

That being said, this could just be a carry over (for me) from the U.S. education system incentivizing reaching a certain word count. Idk

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I uh... Idk, I never thought Bezos was a genius or anything, but I figured he must've been at least moderately above average in intelligence for Amazon to take off initially like it did (I do realize that all the growth for the past 2 decades and more is unrelated to him, but the actual founding part of a startup is somewhat... dependent on the founders)

But I don't think it takes a particularly smart person to figure out that we can't handle 3 more orders of magnitude of humans consuming resources that are mostly available on planet Earth. Average person should definitely figure it out. And he owns a space company. How the fuck does he not realize how infeasible it is?

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same outcome if we invested AI gambling money into education and scholarships, btw.

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

History's Not Made By Great Men

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