OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'politically homeless' in July 4 post bashing Democrats

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8. Cool... billionaire stuff

“I’d rather hear from candidates about how they are going to make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires,”

This is the most bullshit statement I've heard all day.
If everyone were a billionaire then an apple would cost $50 million dollars. It also means some serious hyperinflation.

Billionaires are a cancer on society. Each individual billionaire could crash the stock market with a single irrational trade or irresponsible comment. Billionaires are an incredibly destabilizing force on our economy and on society.
Not only should none of the current billionaires exist, it should be illegal to be a billionaire.

I think people defend them, even here, because it's hard to imagine what a single billion dollars looks like, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.

Its a hard thing to wrap your mind around. Let's try a comparative analog. Let's say that 1 dollar is equal to one second.

How long is a million seconds? 12 days.
How long is a billion seconds? 31 years.
How long is a trillion seconds? 31, 688 years.

See? Its a lot to wrap your mind around. I believe the time analogy really can cause sudden and violent nausea at the sudden realization about how "gross accumulation of wealth" is a wholly inadequate way to describe it.