this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Once you get into a position like that, you're basically just surrounded by yes-men who tell you how great you are non-stop. It would take a very strong character to not go bonkers in that kind of situation. Add to that the fact that people who become billionaires will be pretty self obsessed to begin with and you have a recipe for disaster. Actually, the crusty old French philosophers had this shit figured out 250 years ago.
CEOs, most billionaires, they're psychopaths. That's why they're good at the job. Now we have a bunch of psychopaths controlling all the wealth in the world. If you look through history, they've always been the enemy.
True, but I feel like they are all missing out on the opportunity for some long term ego stroking. Just look at half the early skyscrapers built in the early 20th century; the Chrysler building for example is named after the man, not the company. Do it right and people could be praising the Brin Rail System for decades to come, and he'd be remembered forever for that. Instead he's just one more tech-douche, and that's all he'll ever be remembered as.
Yeah but the people who built these skyscrapers during the gilded age weren't exactly paragons of virtue.
Not saying they were. Just saying that the self aggrandizement of assholes can result in cool shit for the rest of us. Instead we get boring assholes who just sit there jerking off to a number going up.
Doing something good for bad reasons is still doing something good.