john on Nostr: I talked to an old friend yesterday. He hasn't outgrown eat the rich mentality yet. ...

I talked to an old friend yesterday. He hasn't outgrown eat the rich mentality yet. Turns out he is also poor, barely employed, and couch surfing lonely older lady couches (by his own admission) so that makes sense. His thesis is that there shouldn't be billionaires because they dont use their money. I tried to explain that having a lot of equity in a company you built is not the same thing as a dragon sitting on a pile of gold coins. This is really hard for people to understand. (without addressing whether the dragon has done anything wrong in any case). I worry about him, and love him, but I think he's obsessed with the romantic poverty of victomhood.