As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

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    Hey dude. You know what can buy happiness? Compassion, generosity, being of service, creativity, a healthy lifestyle, and staying far away from toxic people like your Trumps, Epsteins, etc. Your conquests and financial success are empty. You see that. Divest. You will live comfortably for the rest of your life now, or pursue endeavors purely for the love of it, or the creative outlet. And you can use that time and money making amends, bettering the lives of everyone around you. Feed the hungry, house the poor, pay for the education and betterment of others, use your influence to benefits those without influence. Empower others to be comfortable too. I promise you that you will feel 10000 times better about yourself, and the people around you will love you for it.

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    This has always bothered me. Capitalism won. They control the world. Every death in most of the world feed the machine. From Palestinians to Cambodians, some are bombed, some are worked, but their death is to spin the wheel. The environment is on fire. To spin the wheel. The world is filled with hate. To spin the wheel. Apparently every single fucking billionaire is a pedophile. To spin their wheel.

    All of that suffering, all of that pain, to get your rocks off, AND YOU’RE NOT EVEN HAPPY?

    Nobody else in the world gets to have a good time so that you can have everything, and you’re still not having a good time?

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    Musk is that edgelord from middle school who never stopped being an edgelord or acting like an idiot pre-teen. He’s desperate to see, hip and cool but he’s just a petty little snowflake of a human being.

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    This so angers me

    The richest person in the world, who single handedly could do something like end world hunger if he wanted to

    The richest person in the world, who got there by exclusively lying his ass off about literally everything

    The richest man in the world who went now full Nazi

    The richest man in the world now buuwuuu complains that his life is so hard.

    I hope you get a fucking paper cut on your dick head.

    I can’t wait for your kind to die out and disappear. We need to rid the world of millionaires. Wealth caps, now!

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      I think he’s trying to iritate people on purpose with this. I wish people would just stop using his products all together. Then we could stop talking about him entirely.

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    Money actually has a strong diminishing return on happiness. A lack of money can definitely make you unhappy. More money also makes it easier to be happy, but does make it easy.

    That’s actually the hole that the rich can get into. They (subconsciously) assume they would be happy with just a bit more money. They delay or ignore the things that would make them happy in trade for more money/power.

    It would actually be quite sad, if it didn’t fuck the rest of us over completely.

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      I do pity them. I long for a world in which such hoarding, deleterious tendencies were treated as the mental health crisis they are, and that such a thing were made impossible to occur.

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    No money can’t buy taste.

    Not worrying about money can make you happy. Billionaires seem to be only worrying about money.

    Not having to worry about money and not worrying about it can make you happy and healthy.

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    This is a man who feels compelled to lie about being good at video games. He’s one of the most pathetic human beings on the face of the planet.

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    There actually are a few rich folks that see the need for more taxation at the high level and such. They sorta get there is only so nice money can make their lives before you get to the point where the earth in general has to get better to improve their quality of life. Many though seem caught up in some sorta game to have the most. Stan ridgeway has a great line in his I want to be the boss song about that. I have said before that I could only get so rich because if I got to a certain point im not going to be chasing that stuff and would chill like the my space guy.

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    He could have started a peaceful revolution, helping millions of people.

    Instead, he’s knocked up a bunch of women, hates them all (and his children), and spends his days bitching on “Twitter”.

    GOOD JOB

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      That’s always the idea though isn’t it.

      You simply do not become a multi-billionaire and have charity and empathy, just to get to the point of having digested so many companies and burned through so many businesses and using people like capital and collateral, you need to be some kind of solipsistic, self-deluded psychopath, but also be stupid enough about humanity and life that you convince yourself you’re deserving of taking the hard work of millions of people for yourself.

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    This fucker could use his money to actually help people. Everyone would love him. He could be the most popular person in the world. He could be so happy doing good.

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    Yeah we know. We saw the letter rejecting his request to rape girls on Epstein Island. Maybe if he had more money? Guess we’ll never know. Poor fella

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      Dear Elon:

      I must decline your many requests, and stress that I would like you to stop contacting me. Since you have been so relentless, I will be extremely candid with you: You look like a Goblin, on a good day, and the very thought of you naked is horrifying. You will terrify the girls, who are, after all, only little kids. It’s hard enough to get them to cooperate with having sex with fat old men without having you stalking around the room like a naked obese Gollum with a bad haircut.

      It’s a NO, and it will always be a NO. Please stop contacting me.

      JE