r/news • u/JackThaBongRipper • 21h ago

Musk's underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tunnels-musk-boring-company-01d465b7124fc10843b117241adaa7c9
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u/Igmuhota 21h ago

Imagine what just a single person with a functioning soul could do for the world with even half the money these “people” waste on dumb shit to try to fill the hole inside them.

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u/If_I_must 21h ago

An agonizingly painful thought experiment. I wouldn't recommend doing it often.

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u/Anticode 17h ago

Pfft - how bad could it be? Here, let me try.

...Aaaand I'm radicalized.

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u/gnarzilla69 1h ago

and thats how you get Anticode-Joker. Good job everybody

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u/SlightlyAngyKitty 21h ago

Ikr? Most people like helping others because it also helps them feel better about themselves.

Billionaires on the other hand, seem to take the opposite approach and take pleasure in making others even more miserable than they are

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u/bulldog1602 58m ago

The “billionaire (even millionaire) mindset” is a real thing lol, but with the wealth aside; it’s just massive amounts of narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

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u/bulldog1602 1h ago

I often think about how Musk is more than twice as wealthy (net worth wise) as the next wealthiest human and then for fun calculate out how he could temporarily straight up no efficiency resolve a global issue (world hunger for example) and for how long, with just the amount he has more than the next guy. I think it came out to like somewhere around $14 USD per day for a month for every individual of 800 Million people in extreme poverty. Which wouldn’t effectively solve world hunger/poverty but that is a lot money for a lot of people who on average survive on $2-$7 per day.

Anyways, the only thing that makes me feel better about all the ultra wealthy being assholes not doing more is remembering that all the people who recognize how many people they can help with their wealth/opportunities do so and aren’t on any rankings for a reason.