Well, that's just it, right?

I think he probably has understood that the risk to himself is minimal.

You know, it's like, or rather, that the, that he is more at risk from, uh, from economic

disruption than he is at risk from any kind of pandemic.

But the weird thing is, um, that, that basically this is a, a series of phone calls over the course of many

months. The weird thing is, right, after the stock market collapse in the 11-year bull

market where everyone's wages like stayed, you know, what, like 20% lower in real terms,

the 9.5 plummet of the S&P 500 was the biggest since Black Monday. I called the investor back

who said, everyone knows it's going to be over in two months. His dismissiveness was almost

eerie. You have to have this kind of foresight to work in the markets, okay? It's not for like

normal people. You can't be dumb money. It's not like, you have to go to school for this shit, man.

Yeah, actually, so the writer says,

members of his class are supposed to be brilliant at analyzing and managing risk.

So I was surprised to find that he's...

I was surprised that this king who has been anointed by God

turns out to be an enormous fucking moron when I got to talk to him.

I always assumed that the huge swinging jewel was a sign of intelligence, but actually.

Yeah.

So, seemed unbothered by what looked to the non-billionaires around me like a uniquely dangerous threat.

I asked him how his circle was talking about the virus. Some people are going to die, but it's old people.

And if they do, it's okay. Before he paused and said, wait, no, it's not okay.

Awesome. I mean, uh, no, it's bad. Actually, yeah, actually No It's bad

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