Brazilification vs The Abundance Paradox

JohnnyDoe said:

Which is the perfect definition of parasite.
In fact, top generals routinely travel on corporate jets, owned by the military and paid by the slaves taxpayers. They are fat degens, disconnected from reality. Meanwhile, soldiers die.

the point is there is no difference whether they force you to serve and die in the battle field or whether they make you pay taxes or inflate your savings - the former is just more visible, the latter is way more sneaky and can aggregate to incomparable dimensions because they "farm" billions of battery-like humans - it doesn't matter whether you die KIA (extreme one) or because of eating toxic industrial food and depressed by running life-long the rat race paying taxes (extreme two) - all in between are just different flavors of enslavement and robbery of energy (Matrix style)

void said:

not a good example - he was no entrepreneur but a slaver, using energy of others to achieve his goals - war has almost never an economic incentive and is possible only by draining resources of others (doesn't matter whether it's directly their bodies, time and life-force or via regulation, debasement of legal tender, taxation or ideological control)

I see your point.
Another example: Elon Musk

Risks: invested almost all his money into SpaceX and Tesla when both were near failure.

Goal: transform energy and space travel.

Result: success

Justit said:

I see your point.
Another example: Elon Musk

He’s an Aspie…

Justit said:

Risks: invested almost all his money

If you risk 90% of $100m right after having cashed in it’s not a big risk

Justit said:

into SpaceX and Tesla when both were near failure.

Government contracts and subsidies…

Justit said:

Goal: transform energy and space travel.

Or better: smartly profit from the subsidies

Justit said:

Result: success

With little risk.