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say what you like about JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but I think it's fair to say that it wouldn't have even occurred to them to do what Elon Musk did to USAID. only an utterly degenerate monster would murder a million+ children basically for the hell of it

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They absolutely sucked but even they had a compulsion to do some good with their money, as evidenced by the educational efforts that bear their names. Meanwhile Musk gutted as much as possible and shows no sign of any impulse to help anyone but himself

Holy shit this is stupid! Ofc the robber barons would have killed people, they didn't have to because aid programs didn't exist to kill. In actual fact, the extremely wealthy banded together to try to stop social programs that helped the poor, including very religious ones like the Pitcairns.

Raymond Pitcairn, for example, was heir to an entire Christian and built a marvelous cathedral and religious college in Pennsylvania. But he was a member of the Sentinels of the Republic, a plutocrat club lobbying to stop the New Deal. And his oligarch father, funny enough, was anti-vax.

"..for the hell of it" is white(supremacist)-washing it. He believes in white replacement theory, eugenics and thinks white need to make more babies. Because there are too black and brown ones. So it wasn't just for "the hell of it" -- any more than Hitler killed Jews for the hell of it.

Disagree. All those other rich folks acted in ways that resulted in tremendous harm to people across the globe, much of which has been glossed over by the celebration of their philanthropy (which is precisely its purpose).

the de facto conspiracy to pretend he didn't do that is crazy-making. all this straight news about Tesla and SpaceX without so much as a whisper of the 7-figure child murder thing

if the tech press interrogated how much of that death was a direct result of Musk being extremely credulous, stupid, and hiring other stupid weirdos the entire house of cards collapses

Carnegie built libraries ... he & Rockefeller founded universities .. their two foundations have helped people world-wide -- same with Andrew Mellon & his foundation, his son Paul Mellon -- both to the National Gallery, but to Yale (arts and more) .Musk wouldn't understand, let alone have a clue

He didn’t do it for the hell of it. He did it because he sincerely believes great replacement shit and wanted to kill a ton of black people to slow their population growth.

They were scared of going to hell and spent the second halves of their lives atoning for the first half. Elon thinks he’s going to live forever on Mars. I wish either of us believed in hell.

Turns out feeling shame and not being able to live inside tiny ideological bubbles 24/7 via a screen are both important to a functioning society.