• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    One of my legitimate concerns is that garish billionaire fuckups like my-hero are consciously used as useful idiots by capitalism to discourage people from realizing every billionaire is an existential threat and the system that created them should be torn apart. Warren Buffet, the "good billionaire" served the same purpose but in the opposite direction.

    On the other hand him being a public clown does serve to undermine the whole meritocracy narrative, which could cause people to start questioning the entire system. The problem with that is that the entire time he's running around being a freak he's obstructing development of things like rail infrastructure, which is maybe a more negative end result than the positive of having bad PR for the mega rich.

    Either way I hope he tries to trade a horse for sex again and the horse kicks his head clean off his shoulders.