@iycrtylph I'm saying that in order to make your point, you need to be able to argue against someone who doesn't care that their imagination is being atrophied. To them, it's like high school algebra.
@GabeThoughtsIdk@estherzelda0514 "why don't those people just go off and start their own companies"
Because actual workers don't get paid "start your own company" money
If they did, they'd subtract Elon from the picture immediately
@FallowRealms@aeugchad Except the scarcity of paintings and the incremental development of painting styles (this is not getting into the fact that a painter must command EVERY detail of the canvas) is literally exactly why paintings are valuable
@G_S_Bhogal robbing your workers of the chance for increased compensation for the wealth that they generated for you. The problem with rich people is that everything is venture capital.
@G_S_Bhogal Not a good analogy.
More apt: you run a business(es) with a bunch of employees and you personally make the decision to use the profits from that business to pay some other people to restore a car. You've taken generated wealth and recycled it back into the means of production,
@butchhandcannon People are going to try to dunk on you, but you're right. Every conservative group on the planet is fundamentally based on a mandate of control of society and endless hostility with neighbors.
@_noh_noh@thereisnobeth Except for the fact that putting data centers in Antarctica would be vastly, vastly easier and less costly than putting them in space and the literal only reason Elon wants to do it in space is because he thinks it's cool