“narcissistic rich guys will, as they age, increasingly want to destroy the world as that is preferable to it…existing without them.” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/09/also-give-us-billions-so-we-can-invent.html

(the elipses elide the word “not” in the original. i think i am fixing an incomplete edit, rather than reversing the author’s intention by doing that. but tell me if i’m wrong!)