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History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
I get why politicians don’t campaign on this kind of message. But I’m not a politician, so I can say it: the rich are carrying the rest of us. They overpay in taxes and receive less in services. Elites are responsible for every major improvement in human wellbeing and we should be grateful rather than envious.
Isaac Newton captured maybe a billionth of the value he produced. Ford and Edison did better, but both were still huge net contributors.
Without elites, we would still be wrestling in the dirt over the biggest potato. Humanity advances solely due to the cognitive top 1%. The idea that they have too much wealth, too much control, is obscene. They have far too little. Instead, it’s siphoned away by upper-midwits (top 10%) who rile up the mob with wordcel nonsense.
Being a heckin good person doesn’t change the world. Being a genius does. Not everyone can be a genius. Most of us are normal. That’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with being normal, contributing your labor, earning a wage, living a normal life. That’s great! But the people who keep upgrading the standard for “a normal life” are elites.
The best things in life actually don’t cost that much money, but only after you invested enough in a mind capable of appreciating depth. Money is just a tool to be free from the anxiety of whether you’ll be able to pay your bills, feed your family, never betray your core values.