Kind of sucks that the wealthy used to flex on each other by funding orphanages and almshouses and museums and now they compete on who can build the best AI chatbot that jacks you off and destroy the planet the fastest
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True, but the point is, they understood how to craft a good public image. Modern billionaires want to be seen in the same light but they’re either too greedy or too incompetent to do something so basic.
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Of course, Musk and Bezos and their ilk only do the basic philanthropy for the tax write off, and even then just to enrich themselves.
Make no mistake, Carnegie was a scientific racist and believer in his moral right to rule over the 'lesser folk'. Read his work.
https://www1.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Carnegie.html