Billionaire Anthroplogy (2 Viewers)

[ann post]

I just read that Peter Theil (Net Worth 20.9 Billion) things that Mordor are the good guys in lord of the rings.

Gandalf’s the crazy person who wants to start a war…Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it’s all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works

I admire the efficiency of this single sentence flying in the face of everything that is important.

I'm 100% down for this thread just turning into scoffing at yachts or whatever.

 

[ann post]

Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software,"

Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) Net worth 140billion

I need to do work but i'd love to do this all day.

 

[egg_]

iirc there's a fanfic version of LOTR written from the point of view of Mordor, and that's the framing - probably that's where Peter Thiel s getting it from

 

[magicbastarder]

the thread title would be a good name for a band.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I just read that Peter Theil (Net Worth 20.9 Billion) things that Mordor are the good guys in lord of the rings.



I admire the efficiency of this single sentence flying in the face of everything that is important.

I'm 100% down for this thread just turning into scoffing at yachts or whatever.

also great band name

 

[ann post]

iirc there's a fanfic version of LOTR written from the point of view of Mordor, and that's the framing - probably that's where Peter Thiel s getting it from

I'm gonna guess RR Tolkien didn't write this.

edit: Also saw some insta post this week that was a rant about how fanfic is actually hatred towards the source material/writer (sic)

 

[hydromancer]

Gandalf and the other Istari from Valinor in a way did act like secret agents and political provocateurs in Middle Earth. Sauron I guess did try to create some sort of ordered structure.

 

[ann post]

I might write to airplane facts with max about what he thinks

 

[therealjohnny]

Reminded of this

 

[magicbastarder]

it must be a really bizarre experience to be surrounded by people who keep telling you how good you are, who entertain and incubate every grievance you have, for you.
perhaps some LA therapists could offer a service to bring them back down to earth. the sort of thing many irritating irish people think they excel at.

 

[magicbastarder]

i remember graham norton talking on blindboy about the supposed behaviour of megastars (which would not be a million miles from the way some of these billionaires think); he talked about one (unnamed) megastar who supposedly demanded an extra changing room to charge their phone; but he surmised that a lot of that shit is due to assistants being asked 'here, can you charge my phone' and them making themselves look essential by blowing small tasks into huge ones so they look like they're doing huge work. (just swinging it back to the role yes-men play in how these people see themselves)

 

[ann post]

I like architecture (as a pure armchair architect here..) and watch odd houses on youtube sometime.
I was watching one the other evening and while i thought it was really cool, i ended up turning it off because the place, while not being wildly oversized, was so far from what normal* people could ever expect that i felt like i was watching people living on another planet.

*like normal people in ireland who are spending almost half a million european euros on normal sized houses.

 

[therealjohnny]

i remember graham norton talking on blindboy about the supposed behaviour of megastars (which would not be a million miles from the way some of these billionaires think); he talked about one (unnamed) megastar who supposedly demanded an extra changing room to charge their phone; but he surmised that a lot of that shit is due to assistants being asked 'here, can you charge my phone' and them making themselves look essential by blowing small tasks into huge ones so they look like they're doing huge work. (just swinging it back to the role yes-men play in how these people see themselves)

The only time I felt like a spoiled rock star was when my band played in England. I traveled without my guitar as I was told there would be one available at the gig. When I got there, I met the support band and had a shot on the guitar player's vintage Framus. I liked it and asked if I could use it for our set. He said yes. As I was playing the set I looked out to see a pissed off guy talking to the promoter as he was putting two Gretches back in their cases and storming off. Unbeknownst to me, one of the guys in my band had told the promoter that I would only play if they provided a vintage Gretsch. Fucks sakes, what a prima donna they made me out to be. It still annoys me.


But anyway, back to the billionaire hate

 

[ann post]

I was watching one the other evening and while i thought it was really cool, i ended up turning it off because the place, while not being wildly oversized, was so far from what normal* people could ever expect that i felt like i was watching people living on another planet.

here we go

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[hydromancer]

I would be happy living there doing nothing except drinking coffee and writing nonsense on thumped

 

[JohnnyRaz]

it must be a really bizarre experience to be surrounded by people who keep telling you how good you are, who entertain and incubate every grievance you have, for you.
perhaps some LA therapists could offer a service to bring them back down to earth. the sort of thing many irritating irish people think they excel at.

this could be the indigenous industry that finally brings prosperity back to midlands unemployment blackspots.

'elon, what sort of a fecking name is elon'
'how old are ye elon, old enough to take a batin?'

 

[seanc]

There's an article in The Atlantic (sort of paywalled), which is a transcript of a podcast by David Frum. I assume the podcast is generally available.

Frum's guest, I forget her name, held that from what she has seen, it all starts with the private jet. Once you have access to that, you can never go back. She says a lot more than that, but she explains the private jet idea very well. "The jet will wait for you".

 

[ernesto]

There's an article in The Atlantic (sort of paywalled), which is a transcript of a podcast by David Frum. I assume the podcast is generally available.

Frum's guest, I forget her name, held that from what she has seen, it all starts with the private jet. Once you have access to that, you can never go back. She says a lot more than that, but she explains the private jet idea very well. "The jet will wait for you".

She sounds great

 

[ann post]

There's an article in The Atlantic (sort of paywalled), which is a transcript of a podcast by David Frum. I assume the podcast is generally available.

Frum's guest, I forget her name, held that from what she has seen, it all starts with the private jet. Once you have access to that, you can never go back. She says a lot more than that, but she explains the private jet idea very well. "The jet will wait for you".

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[ann post]

There's an article in The Atlantic (sort of paywalled), which is a transcript of a podcast by David Frum. I assume the podcast is generally available.

Frum's guest, I forget her name, held that from what she has seen, it all starts with the private jet. Once you have access to that, you can never go back. She says a lot more than that, but she explains the private jet idea very well. "The jet will wait for you".

That's interesting.

I'm filing that under 'things that are so well explained i'm going to convince myself I already knew it"