Mega rich kids and the future

Musk and Trump are definitely eccentric. I guess that could come across as weird to some.

These are the same things. "Eccentric" people are just weird people who are rich. See: Howard Hughes.

Musk, for example, is making the world a better place by doing such a great job of building cars that don't rely on fossil fuels.

Patently false. Over 80% of US energy consumption is fossil fuels if you increase electric cars you increase fossil fuel consumption.

Trump has just opened the door to peaceful talks with a Nuclear power who literally wanted to destroy the USA.

I almost cant believe you said this. He pulled us out of the Iran Nuclear Deal and accomplished less than nothing so far with North Korea by himself.

It doesn't mean they aren't brilliant.

If you think there's even a possibility Donald J Trump is "brilliant" then this conversation is already over. There is zero chance that is the case.

Look at Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. They have allocated the vast majority of their wealth to ridding the world of diseases that kill hundreds of thousands every year.

Patently false. Neither of them donated the majority of their wealth. Gates donated $1.35 billion and he's worth $97 billion. Buffet donated somewhere between $1-3 billion a few times but he's worth $73 billion. Maybe you're confusing Bill Gates personally with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Maybe you're confusing the fact that Buffet said he'll donate 99% of his fortune within 10 years of his estate settlement with thinking he's already donated the "majority of his wealth". Neither of those are what you said tho.

Most importantly neither of those are the off spring of exorbitantly rich people which the entire point of this post.

If you can only see the bad in what these people do, then maybe you're the problem, not them.

MAYBE. Maybe I'm the problem with the gross hoarding of billions. /s

Hoarding billions means that money can't go to you and I. I don't hide my money away so it can generate more wealth. My income goes back into the economy and circulates.

You're so grossly inaccurate that I have to conclude you're being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.

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