Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
"I believe I'm a good leader" - Anyone who says this, isn't. I'm a bit of a prepper/sustainability/self-sufficiency nerd myself. The rich are in for a hard time when they realise just how much...
"I believe I'm a good leader" - Anyone who says this, isn't.
I'm a bit of a prepper/sustainability/self-sufficiency nerd myself. The rich are in for a hard time when they realise just how much they give up in the concept of "apocalypse bunker" type mentality.
Reading about swaths of inconceivably wealthy people, who most likely already have enough money to cover every want or need they could possibly have 10x over for the rest of their lives, dumping...
Reading about swaths of inconceivably wealthy people, who most likely already have enough money to cover every want or need they could possibly have 10x over for the rest of their lives, dumping money into these fortifications and backup plans rather than spending it trying to make the actual world we live in any better feels so dystopian. It’s like they’ve preemptively decided that the billions of people less fortunate than them matter so little that they’d rather spend millions ensuring those people can’t reach them or touch their hoarded resources rather than, I dunno, donate, start a foundation, or lobby for political change that could stop the environmental and societal disasters they’re all so scared of. And I know doomsday prep and philanthropy aren’t mutually exclusive, but the truth is spending $5M to build a concrete bunker and a weapons cache is $5M dollars that could have pulled many individuals out of poverty or debt and changed lives.
This stuff is amusing to a point, more so when it’s a guy hand digging a bunker with jarred goods to have as backup, but the cases is this article just feel depressing. These are life changing levels of wealth for millions of people living in a reality that already feels like the end of the world, struggling to live, feed their families, pay for medicine, and these people are just blowing it in the hopes they can lock the needy out some day and play king.
I don't think we, as human beings, are particularly well-adapted to dealing with the stresses that come from looking clearly at the state of our present society. In other words, just paying...
I don't think we, as human beings, are particularly well-adapted to dealing with the stresses that come from looking clearly at the state of our present society. In other words, just paying attention—reading the news, understanding the direction technology is going, and having a good sense of the risks we face at a global scale—is a mental health risk in and of itself.
The kind of people this article discusses—executives, leaders, tech bros, and so on—got to where they are in part because it's their job to understand those things. I wonder if there isn't a connection between being in Silicon Valley leadership on the one hand and eventually succumbing to these kinds of mental health problems on the other.
Oh, and! Talk about burying the lede. OP, if you had mentioned the article features spez, there would probably be 100 comments here right now.
Absolutely, it was a fascinating article. To be honest, this whole thing is like a bad breakup. At some point, you just have to say, "I'm done". For me, that moment has come and gone, and if I...
Absolutely, it was a fascinating article.
To be honest, this whole thing is like a bad breakup. At some point, you just have to say, "I'm done". For me, that moment has come and gone, and if I never hear about Reddit again, I'll be fine with that.
Here's the golden nugget quote:
"I believe I'm a good leader" - Anyone who says this, isn't.
I'm a bit of a prepper/sustainability/self-sufficiency nerd myself. The rich are in for a hard time when they realise just how much they give up in the concept of "apocalypse bunker" type mentality.
Reading about swaths of inconceivably wealthy people, who most likely already have enough money to cover every want or need they could possibly have 10x over for the rest of their lives, dumping money into these fortifications and backup plans rather than spending it trying to make the actual world we live in any better feels so dystopian. It’s like they’ve preemptively decided that the billions of people less fortunate than them matter so little that they’d rather spend millions ensuring those people can’t reach them or touch their hoarded resources rather than, I dunno, donate, start a foundation, or lobby for political change that could stop the environmental and societal disasters they’re all so scared of. And I know doomsday prep and philanthropy aren’t mutually exclusive, but the truth is spending $5M to build a concrete bunker and a weapons cache is $5M dollars that could have pulled many individuals out of poverty or debt and changed lives.
This stuff is amusing to a point, more so when it’s a guy hand digging a bunker with jarred goods to have as backup, but the cases is this article just feel depressing. These are life changing levels of wealth for millions of people living in a reality that already feels like the end of the world, struggling to live, feed their families, pay for medicine, and these people are just blowing it in the hopes they can lock the needy out some day and play king.
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I don't think we, as human beings, are particularly well-adapted to dealing with the stresses that come from looking clearly at the state of our present society. In other words, just paying attention—reading the news, understanding the direction technology is going, and having a good sense of the risks we face at a global scale—is a mental health risk in and of itself.
The kind of people this article discusses—executives, leaders, tech bros, and so on—got to where they are in part because it's their job to understand those things. I wonder if there isn't a connection between being in Silicon Valley leadership on the one hand and eventually succumbing to these kinds of mental health problems on the other.
Oh, and! Talk about burying the lede. OP, if you had mentioned the article features spez, there would probably be 100 comments here right now.
I was genuinely interested in the article and didn't want this post to become yet another Reddit and Spez bashing session ;)
Absolutely, it was a fascinating article.
To be honest, this whole thing is like a bad breakup. At some point, you just have to say, "I'm done". For me, that moment has come and gone, and if I never hear about Reddit again, I'll be fine with that.
Honestly its a good test to see who is actually reading the article or just reading the headline and jumping into the comments.