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A lot of your assumptions aren't correct. I respect your enthusiasm though
Billionaires aren't 'enmeshed' in the system, they are literally the free-est and least constrained people on the planet. They DICTATE the system and there is none of the 'locked in' feeling you are going on about in the billionaire club. The only exception may be the Muskrat's recent nazi speedrun, I think he's regretting that now
Survival bunkers aren't to resolve an inner contradiction at all, they are literally what they say on the package: A last holdout when things go off the cliff. And this isn't a new thing
I have no idea what the fuck you are going on about with AI and the ecosystem
Ok it's pretty clear you don't actually know what you are talking about. This conversation is over
have you really not seen all those thinkpeices that go, "Lets dump our resources into develping AI rather than conservation and renewables, because the AI will magic up a solution for us better than anything actual researchers suggest"?
Billionaires are only free so long as they do nothing that compromises greater returns year after year. Their money is tied up in financial institutions, beholden to the demands of their fellow investors, their overall class. What you call "freedom" is just ultimate privilege. And, like any privilege, it is conditional.
Musk is the perfect example that very concept, yet you choose to dismiss it as some bizarre outlier rather than a demonstration of the rule.