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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Ben McKenzie stops by to talk Crypto, and the boys reflect on old billionaire philanthropy vs. modern billionaire philanthropy. Subscribe today for access to all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

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0:00.0

Well, like as the stakes get higher and as like average threshold for comfort gets further

0:08.0

and further away, the meter for what it means to be a good person and be a billionaire gets

0:13.1

adjusted. For Warren Buffett, it's just like, okay, I have $60 billion, but I vaguely support

0:19.2

democratic policies and we'll give peons about how I should be taxed more. For this next generation,

0:26.0

when yes, like the threshold of comfort is different and there's less mobility and the stakes

0:31.2

seem higher and there's less of a coherent future. The meter for a my good person is,

0:37.5

can I make humanity an eternal species? Can I make us escape the death of the sun and the

0:43.4

heat death of the universe? Can I defeat climate change? Can I prevent the plot of terminator from

0:48.5

happening? I know that's a big one for these guys. Oh, God, there's so scared of terminator showing up.

0:52.6

Yeah. Well, the terminator is going to just show up and just shoot everybody. Oh, my God, I'm so

0:57.4

scared. We did too good a job of making computers. They got mad at us. Yeah, I hate that. I hate that.

1:04.4

I mean, it's like, I think it's very interesting to compare three generations or three iterations

1:11.6

of repatient capitalist starting with, you know, Rockefeller, Carnegie or JP Morgan going into

1:20.6

the Buffets and Bezos and Soros. And now what we have here, the most, the most bullshit,

1:27.2

the most vaporware version of this. And look, I don't think John DeRocquefeller was a good guy.

1:34.0

Nor do I think that his charitable donations were really, really went as far as they could.

1:40.2

But at least in opera houses, a thing that you can see. It's a thing that people can go into

1:45.2

and verify is real. Libraries are real. Universities are real. As time goes on and the fortunes

1:52.7

become less tangible, the philanthropy becomes more just a fameral. Yeah, made up. Well, there's no,

2:00.9

there's no libraries or anything that I've built now. But in a billion years, there's going to be

2:08.4

Dyson spear around the sun. And that's how I did that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well,

2:13.6

yeah, you know the plot, you know the plot of Halo. Well, I'm going to make the ring world.

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