I’m pretty sure they would. It’s not like they’d like to see their seaside properties go underwater within their lifetimes.
You wish.
If I were a sociopathic billionaire I would love some degree of global warming. The more you make part of the world unliveable, the more I can charge people for living conditions.
I can create bio domes that have clean cool air and charge people to live in there. I’ve now successfully monetized clean air.
Not at all. Those billionaires will still have massively huge egos that will prevent them from recognizing their own futures will be incredibly shitty.
They’ll use their wealth in the short term to build bunkers, etc. where they think they’ll be able to continue to live in luxury while the rest of the world burns around them. But no matter how good the bunker and how many supplies they squirrel away, they’ll eventually be forced to return to the real world, and won’t be prepared for the fact that their piles of money will be worthless if the planet is largely uninhabitable.
I don’t think so. Climate change is not a big threat for the rich. Actually they can even gain benefits from it, as it will push inequality to new heights.
I don’t think the billionaires’ investments are going to be worth billions if the global economy collapses.
We hoi polloi think in money numbers and what we can afford to purchase. For the Capital Class, it’s all about power. Money is just how they keep score.
I think relative values mean more than absolute for them. They just need to keep their position as the richest people in the world even in absolute sense they will lose. Money itself expresses relative values. So billionaires will continue be billionaires.
Billionaires don’t care about the economy. What matters is whom owns the means of production. And in today’s age, whom owns the means of ideology production.
Being g a saint to a group of bullies is worth everything.
Yup. They would setup camps and gas the mortals to solve the gods’ problems.
No.
Why?
They’d just need to get property in the safer places.I think they’d improve research in automation and AI. So that they can have their stuff, without having to rely on regular people who’d be wiped out or affected by climate change in the long run.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned this is essentially the plot of fallout. The billionaires will solve climate change by culling the poor “destroying the world”.
Lol nope.
Immortallity is not what drives billionaires.
One thing over everything else matters.
The highscore.
As long as it increases they don’t care about anything else.
At the current rate governments would spend the world’s remaining time making a cozy place for them to spend eternity alone.
I think not, we would just get bigger boats at the sea.
And maybe they’d build some pyramids or something else crazy rich people do.
I’m pretty sure they would just become the goa’oul from Stargate and enslave the mere mortals.
Time to kill some gods.
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No, they’ll try to solve it using the free market and fail
Nah, worse, they’ll succeed from their perspective. At the expense of everyone else.
If they’re immortal, they’d live through climate change, so no, they wouldn’t GAF.
I don’t know. I kindof suspect that:
- The billionaires may somewhat believe their own propaganda and maybe the climate chang denying billionaires may outnumber the ones who are more in touch with reality.
- The machines that capitalism has built to maintain and intensify wealth concentration may well have escaped the control of their creators. Corporations have wills of their own distinct from that of the people nominally “in charge” like the C-level leaders and board and shareholders.
- Climate change itself may have already passed a point of no return or if it hasn’t, it likely will before even the most powerful manage to redirect the momentum of the system in a different direction.
No, it is not the individual action of billionaires but the profit driven nature of capitalism that is killing us. If billionaires were immortal they would simply move to more livable places, kill and impoverish large groups of us to reduce the environmental load or create ecospheres to house themselves while we burn.
The problem is not that all billionaires are bad people (they are), its that the economic system they uphold necessitates infinite growth on a finite planet. If these billionaires don’t constantly grow their empires then a more evil capitalist willing to exploit others and the environment more efficiently will outcompete them and take their place.
Being shortsighted isn’t inherent to a billionaire but it is inherent to the system that justifies their existence
