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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Effective altruism is so funny. A bunch of rich dumbfucks jerking each other off about how being selfish and hoarding wealth is actually selfless and altruistic.

Just own your parasitic nature, fuckfaces. Just be honest about how you don't give a shit about anyone else and wanna use your billions to fuck kids on Epstein island. Stop deluding yourself and pretending like what you're doing serves anyone but your own pathetic asses.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a sleek grift, too: it doesn't need to pay out now, or in anyone's measurable lifetimes. They talk about magical cyber-ascendants billions of years from now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't even think it's a grift, really. I don't think its primary purpose is to convince others to give them money. I think its primary purpose is cope, not to lie to others but to lie to themselves. People who want to have their cake and eat it too on an emotional level, who can't resist the temptation of wealth and power and want to silence their own morality. It's a group of people who want to assure primarily each other that what they're doing is actually totally righteous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Its the perfect pyramid scheme though.

I'll take your money today... and 1,000 generations later you're relatives will get their payout. porky-happy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

so-true Masters of unfalsable psychohistory

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

wholesome

Sam, if you weren't in prison you'd be chopped up inside a suitcase, so enjoy your writing resort

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hmm, could I read this for some catharsis? I feel like I know different versions of this guy in my personal life.

EDIT: Also, first thing that I thought of

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like I know different versions of this guy in my personal life.

So do I. They didn't get as rich, but it was all there, from the "eugenics, and by that I mean my superior genes, will improve the future of humanity" ideology to the cryptobro grifting to the staggeringly inflated sense of self-importance that reached self-deification.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some of them consider themselves "on the left". >:(

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

"Free college, legal weed, and an eternity of benevolent god-king rule from billionaires that post cringe on Twitter!" marx-joker

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are you surrounded by so many psychos.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Location, location, location. agony-4horsemen

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

They're everywhere when you work in tech agony-deep

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

one of the most hated people in the world? i completely forgot he existed as im sure most people in the world already have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

he managed to hurt rich people so he'll always be good in my book.

sure the damage he did was next infinitesimally small and non-enduring to the rich; but you have to take whatever victories you can get no matter how small because that's all you're going to get when it comes to the rich. lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Pinning the weasel has its consequences, Sammy-boy.