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The billionaires don’t pay the salaries of the interviewers to ask hard hitting questions.
This is your reminder that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Take from that what you will.
He's not the only one either. Oligarchs own nearly all of our news media. There are only a couple exceptions, and those are independent groups that are reliant on platforms like youtube.
As a fun thought experiment -- to get £1bn someone would have to give you £1 per second EVERY SECOND for 32 years.
No one needs that much money. And anyone who says they do, or anyone who defends someone who does, really needs to adjust their point of view.
That didn't really hit me until I realized it's £3600 per hour. That's my monthly salary.
"It's not enough to simply succeed. Your success must also contribute to the active failure of everyone else."
Watch Wolf of Wall Street - extremely NSFW btw - or if you cannot handle watching it, read the book.
For some, the money isn't even the point, it's the thrill of the con game.
For billionaires though, it's something on a whole other level. Like, look at pictures of them - Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, etc. - there's something not right there at all. They are playing an entirely different kind of game when, e.g., they don't even allow their workers to take breaks to pee, even if they are pregnant. Ofc YOU would not do that, nor likely would anyone that you know, nor would even meet in your entire lifetime. Who would do such a thing!? (unless their boss mandates it ofc, so like they would get fired if they don't, I mean like if nobody was forcing you to do so and yet... you did it anyway, and then you also forced thousands of other ~~humans~~ people to do it too)
That's why they are a billionaire and you and I are not - b/c they are on a whole other level. It's true, money cannot buy happiness, but they are damn sure going to ~~watch~~ cause the world to burn while they try.
There was a twilight zone episode called "a nice place to visit" where this petty crook died and ended up in a place where he could have anything he wanted any time. Every time he'd gamble, he'd win. Every woman he talked to wanted him. Etc. But he couldn't lose.
A billionaire can have anything, but without challenge nothing really means anything. It's all fake, and they're surrounded by people who just agree with them in order to get to their money. They have no friends. They can't even go outside. They're trapped in the mansions and sports cars and yachts, unable to live in or even experience the world they have so much influence over. They are trapped by their wealth, so they come up with impossible plans to escape... To Mars, to space... But there is no escape. They are trapped on a world they are killing, surrounded by people who they need who also hate them.
The crook in the twilight zone episode asked to lose or get turned down, wanted some kind of challenge. He didn't want to be in heaven anymore... And he was informed that he was not in heaven. That was hell.
Of course they're broken. They're in a living hell that everyone imagines is heaven.
Both Bezos and Musk were also abused or neglected by their parents. They feel like they have to prove something, but there's nothing to prove and the people they want to prove themselves to are dead.
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