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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York State Built Elon Musk a $1 Billion Factory. ‘It Was a Bad Deal.’

I'll accept that for certain people, not for all billionaires.

- Sheldon Adelson threw all his money behind Israel.

- J Paul Getty threw all his money behind owning art.

- Warren Buffett mostly seems to be interested in making more money.

- Melinda Gates apparently convinced Bill to "do something useful with it" like cure malaria

- Cornelius Vanderbilt imagined a world without rules and acted accordingly

- Jeff Bezos and Paul Allen mostly seem(ed) interested in acquiring toys

Julia Philips has a "Yiddish" saying in You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again: "People regard wealth three ways - as blood, to nourish; as semen, to create; and as shit to be thrown away."

Elon Musk wants to be adulated because he was never loved as a kid. Elon Musk is Buddy Pine as Syndrome.