I think that, somewhere north of $1 ~ $5 million is life-changing on its own. There’s no need for someone to have tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Tens of millions is like, changing multiple lives in a family with how much that can stretch.

Whenever someone has billions to their name, it is boggling to think about. That it becomes just ‘fuck you’ money at that point because more often than not, not a lot of billionaires out there being charitable. When they know they’re set for a few lifetimes just by a single billion alone.

No single person should ever have that amount of gross wealth.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I’d rather we were each and all free to have spaceships.

    Much more ecologically savvy than petroleum powered cars and all the road infrastructure they require.

    Spaceships for everybody.

    Spaceships that are zero-point energy powered, capable of zero-inertia propulsion, sustaining human life indefinitely, printing another of itself instantly, and safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home. I hear these exist, and have for decades before we saw the TR-3B (in 2014 or earlier), and at least as early as a decade after the foo-fighters and the bell (“die glocke”) during WW2.

    Or even just the aeros of the mid 1800s, like Charles Dellschau drew from what he saw at the Sonora Aero Club in 1850… that’d be better, for a start, even if they’ve not been made spaceworthy yet, at least they’d be clean powered, energy efficient, and spare our landscape being cut up by roads (freeing up even more acres for each our farm holdings individual and communal), freeing us to travel where there’s far more room (in the sky), no traffic, and cant crash by driver error or strike wildlife, the em-inertial field just slipstreaming us past anything, and able to stop instantly, with the internal inertial reference frame separated.

    Lets wind back this over 175 year lost progress for the common people.

    It’d even be a nice start if more people merely started looking into this, beyond their circular-reasoned unwittingly conditioned-presumption that it’s not possible or true.