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From Bluesky:
So this got me thinking about how a lot of people cannot fathom the idea of anyone with powers like Superman who wouldn't immediately do selfish things and from there those questions that go around social media as a time waster that ask 'what would you do with a billion dollars/any wish you want' and then pre-emptively order people that they can't say something like eliminating debt, any form of helping people, etc.
And I'm wondering if it's related! There's this general impression from the people I'm mentioning that I think they believe if you say anything else, you're saying it to Look Good. And I think that generally makes less interesting stories because it has such a narrow view of the motivations of a wide swath of people. Of course there's people who'd go mad with power. And we see what real life rich people do every day that's cruel*. But there's also room for people who, given a great boon, doing something else with it.
Even if it's just my friend Moss's dream to open a tiny ungulate sanctuary.
*probably because you don't become that rich without certain prerequisites, but the point of the question is if the money was suddenly in your hands and not that you spent the last ten years exploiting workers.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò olufemiotaiwo
"when this person imagines power, do they start describing a toddler?" is a political litmus test I find myself applying more and more these days
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Shiv Ramdas
"superman is basically a god" is a take I see more and more these days and it only makes sense if your entire conception of a god is "can smash shit when he wants"
So this got me thinking about how a lot of people cannot fathom the idea of anyone with powers like Superman who wouldn't immediately do selfish things and from there those questions that go around social media as a time waster that ask 'what would you do with a billion dollars/any wish you want' and then pre-emptively order people that they can't say something like eliminating debt, any form of helping people, etc.
And I'm wondering if it's related! There's this general impression from the people I'm mentioning that I think they believe if you say anything else, you're saying it to Look Good. And I think that generally makes less interesting stories because it has such a narrow view of the motivations of a wide swath of people. Of course there's people who'd go mad with power. And we see what real life rich people do every day that's cruel*. But there's also room for people who, given a great boon, doing something else with it.
Even if it's just my friend Moss's dream to open a tiny ungulate sanctuary.
*probably because you don't become that rich without certain prerequisites, but the point of the question is if the money was suddenly in your hands and not that you spent the last ten years exploiting workers.