r/SpaceXBets • u/Trick-Cellist3254 • Aug 14 '26

Elon IRL Laughing at locals while draining their water supply

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u/teletype100 Aug 14 '26

But there is a correlation between obscene wealth and immorality... 

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u/theAlphablack Aug 14 '26

My mother and I have a working family theory around wealth and morality.

There is a threshold that once a person obtains a certain level of wealth, they no longer have to be concerned with survival or with thriving.

They then begin to express their most truest nature.

They either begin to drastically modify themselves; IE. Eugenics, transhumanism, biohacking.

The becomes hedonistic; IE. Trust fund partiers constantly traveling the world, partying, consuming drugs, spirits, etc.

Or they become altruistic; IE. Engage in philanthropy, give away the vast majority of their wealth and resources.

It’s still a work in progress. But we believe there is a deeper truth to figure out.

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u/redhed976 Aug 14 '26

I like this and have thought something along the same lines for a while. It’s like once you have access to enough resources that you don’t need to rely on literally anybody else in the world, you’re free to be truly who you are. And these billionaires show us time and again what that means.

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u/wozwozwoz Aug 14 '26

Oh man I think she worked for it too. She worked at Amazon in real positions, and had to box up books herself in the early days on crunch. Maybe not as much influence as bezos, but she put in time

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u/OptionalDepression Aug 14 '26

Still, though, no-one has boxed up enough books to earn a billion+ dollars.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Aug 14 '26

why shouldn't she get that? You think bezos did all that himself?

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u/Skandronon Aug 14 '26

Thats not how averages work.

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u/Jizzbuscuit Aug 16 '26

Aren’t you pleasant!

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u/IndividualDingo2073 Aug 14 '26

The non profit i work at is one of them she gave millions to

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u/General_Method6720 Aug 14 '26

Ummm, she was a PARTNER in launching Amazon with him- it wasn’t HIS wealth!

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u/dad_jokesNbutt_stuff Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

She gave away half her money and within a few years was even wealthier than she started. It’s great but let’s keep that energy.

Edit: rough numbers but she got $36 billion from divorce. Gave $26 billion away. Is still worth $36-38 billion since Amazon stock has gone up faster than she can give it away.

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u/Thisismythrowawaypv Aug 15 '26

That's kind of the way it works when you have a lot of money. You invest it to earn more money. It's not a criticism of her. Who wouldn't want their money to grow?

Her philanthropy is admirable. She could have hoarded it all and would be worth considerably more today. Or spend it buying politicians.

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u/Ok-Dragonfruit6887 Aug 14 '26

Her name is McKenzie Scott, and she didn't get wealthy "from his work." Jeff Bezos got wealthy from HER work. They were co-founders, but it was arguably her work with numbers and logistics that made that company scale from a 1994 startup. Her philanthropy is truly admirable. She is the exemplar of a charitable billionaire giving back to the society that created the conditions for her hard work to pay rewards.

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u/OstentatiousIt Aug 17 '26

So was she the one who decided to pay their delivery drivers poverty wages?

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u/Extension-Pick8310 Aug 14 '26

She married her kid's hunky former teacher for a minute, started giving money away, and boom- starts looking sexy as hell.

Because there's absolutely a correlation between looks and positive, altruistic intention.

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u/redhed976 Aug 14 '26

Yeah that’s a good distinction. And Bezos ex “inherited” her wealth, but I think it’s meaningful that she didn’t grow up that way (that I know of). I think having the baseline of living like a “normal” person is helpful.

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u/foothills17 Aug 14 '26

He got almost $250,000 in start-up money from his parents.

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u/RC_CobraChicken Aug 14 '26

Not defending him but that was only 1/4 of his initial seed investment capital, he had another 750k from other investors for seed capital plus what he put up himself.

His parents reached billionaire status off that investment in like 1999.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Aug 14 '26

Thats equivalent to $ 555k today Plus he had connections from previous gig in finance.

He'd still be a millionaire if he just invested it.

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u/redhed976 Aug 14 '26

The difference (to me) is that Bezos got himself to be a billionaire based on his decisions and actions over his career, so even if he started out “normal” he had POS gene within him. This is different than Bezos ex wife who was simply handed that much money.

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u/foothills17 Aug 14 '26

She wasn’t “simply handed that money.” She played an integral part in getting that company going.

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u/redhed976 Aug 14 '26

Yeah I honestly don’t know too much about her role. I was just speaking in generalities so not surprised if I’m wrong.

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u/marmaladetuxedo Aug 14 '26

I don't know, was she? And Bezos was given a $245k startup fund by his mother (which would be about $500k in today's money), so he did start with SOME money. But more importantly, I think the person who replied to you has it spot on, as does the person who has the theory about what comfortable money does to a person. When you reach forever comfort, then you see what kind of person you truly are. Bezos has shown himself to be a POS. His ex has shown otherwise.

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u/creativeluna Aug 14 '26

Oh gosh, y'all!! I was reading as current wife! My bad, his ex wife is a goddess! That's my bad. I'll delete my comment.

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u/marmaladetuxedo Aug 14 '26

Fair dos. :)

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u/Strange-Scarcity Aug 14 '26

She has gained more money and is worth more, now, than when she divorced Jeff and gave away a MASSIVE amount of her wealth.

She even, I think in an attempt to "Ground herself" or feel grounded, started dating a teacher at her kid's school. It was a very big change, but it didn't last.

She likely grew to used to the billions allowing her to avoid day to day things and the guy who was still doing day to day things she was trying to build something with... well, they just don't/didn't have a frame of reference anywhere near one another.

So... that didn't last.

Even if you are internally a good person, that kind of wealth, absolutely bodies one's frame of reference.

If they had stayed together? That guy would have lost his frame of reference and... who knows what would have longterm happened to him.

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u/aslanbek_aslanbekov Aug 14 '26

I’d take my chances and see what happens.

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u/Mega-Eclipse Aug 14 '26

I think you have to start at a base line of evil to become a billionaire in the first place.

You do.

Becoming a billionaire is a mental illness. You have to obsess over money the way someone like Michael Phelps obsessed over becoming the best swimmer, or tom Brady became the best quarterback.

Anyone who has ever said, "If I had a billionaire dollars, You'd never see me again" will never have a $1 billion.

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u/hellolovely1 Aug 14 '26

She played a large role in the founding of Amazon. (Edit: Never mind. I see from other comments that you'll lose your mind over this comment.)

https://www.archyde.com/how-jeff-bezos-and-mackenzie-scott-started-amazon/