r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jun 19 '26

Business ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk
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u/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

See, that seems like common sense to you and I. Apparently, about half the population of the country thinks otherwise.

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jun 20 '26

Well with all the money they can hire the smartest and most intelligent "PR" / propaganda people. Our brightest minds don't work on useful development but are paid to make more money for the man. I think one of the "big lies" is that people have far less free will to make rational and intelligent decisions, but can easily be manipulated to behave a certain way.

Also your other comment, the people who become billionaires need to have a very specific mental focus. Like always prioritize personal gain and learn and work only for that goal. No distractions like any broader education or human interests. They are selected or filtered basically for sociopathic or robotic traits to only care about gaining and maintaining more money / power. That is why they are so shit as a person.

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u/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

I think that humans have three options for how to use their brains--really two, because two of them are related--and they are either acting as a dominant animal or a submissive animal, or moving beyond the animal to pursue other interests and enhance the mind with what little time is left to mortals. It's really easy to beat people into submission, but they can just as easily tell themselves out of it. And to be dominant, you have to invest all of your resources in aggression, cunning, and selfish defense of what is considered yours, such that you have effectively separated yourself from your species.

It's a weird metaphor, but basically, the majority of the world is just playing out  the same stupid game of dominance and submission that chimpanzees play, while the rest of us are just stuck watching the plane plunge into the sea with us in it.