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And you can tell, they had a really good decade or so there

For me one of the things that has made last-10-years-ish capitalism so much worse was you used to be able to say things like "firing people is expensive", or otherwise prevail upon the basic truth that the right thing to do is sometimes also the strictly profit-motivated thing to do... now you can't

Not a great sign for what they think the future is going to look like. I don’t think they have any real awareness of climate collapse or the impending financial crisis but they feel it on some level. Definitely a “party is ending, stuff some liquor in your pockets” vibe to everything right now

We’ve all had times in our life where we know we’re not putting in enough thought and effort for something to continue. It can be a friendship, a romantic relationship, a job, a hobby, anything. I think the ultra-wealthy are experiencing this en masse right now.

There are mature ways to handle endings, but these people never develop those skills. They’re mental toddlers. Only instant gratification can satisfy them, and the standard for gratification is increasingly impossible to meet. If you’re a striver, if you have nothing else, of course it is.