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Imagine being Elon Musk, or Donald Trump, or Boris Johnson. You have more money than you know what to do with. You could literally afford to go to whatever paradise you want and spend the days of your one life doing whatever you please.

They came so tantalisingly close to having more fulfilling and carefree lives than 99.99% of humans who have ever lived, but instead they want the masses to fear and adore them.

And they are utterly miserable, because nothing will fill the void, and the more they try, the more they debase themselves in front of billions, and the people they most need to respect them probably think they’re losers.

Idiots. Fools. Losers.

Musk is the worst of them. Read some Iain M Banks books, didn’t understand any of then, decided to save the world by becoming a solar power and electric vehicle magnate with space colonies.

But instead he is approaching old age as the proprietor of a bankrupt nazi chat room, and none of his kids will speak to him.

How can you have so many advantages and yet fuck up so amazingly completely?

@goatsarah

So true .. the fact is all these wealthy people will eventually die and rot away

They will leave their kids wealthy, but in a world a bit shittier because they existed.

Their kids have a choice of emulating their parents or trying to repair the damage for their kids.

So it will continue until they either die trying to make the world better or die with their money being of little value in a future shithole

@PGBeattie @goatsarah personally I think that is their problem - money has given them power to do as they please but they can’t cheat death, the great leveller we all must deal with and it drives them to distraction. They are all terrified of being dead and forgotten and irrelevant.

@bobthomson70 @goatsarah

I like to think of Nobel who saw his obituary in error when he was still alive

If they could see how the world will perceive them when they are dead... It might rip their arrogance away from them

Very few wealthy individuals are going to be thought of well after they are dead.

The people who suck up to them now... Won't give them a thought in death

@PGBeattie @bobthomson70 I honestly could not find it in me to give fewer shits about what people think about me when I die.
Bob Thomson

@goatsarah @PGBeattie same I’m gone anyway, and you can’t control how people think of you when you are alive let alone dead.

@bobthomson70 @goatsarah well yes and no... I live my life and try as be as decent as I can .. I don't shit on people ... I try and treat everyone the same ... I don't belittle people... If people want to think I'm an arsehole then that's their choice ... But I don't go out my way to be one... Unlike some wealthy people