I’m at a loss for words with this

  • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Malcolm and Simone Collins are some of the most moronic people alive. They’re both failson inheritors of their parents’ wealth and have “jobs” operating their own foundations or some shit. They are actual firm believers in Effective Altruism and nominative determinism, which is why all their kids have fucking stupid names. They’re both actual redditors with full bazinga brain.

    They genuinely believe their genetics are imperative to pass down because the ability to accumulate wealth is, as far as they’re aware, genetic. Their genetics also gave both of them the smoothest brains ever recorded, I’m talking SI standard for frictionless surface.

    The one benefit to their harebrained scheme to populate the world with billionaires is that all of their children will be failures from the get-go, having been raised by secular Calvinists, and with so many children their wealth will wither and vanish in a series of unsuccessful artists, honorary MBA entrepreneurships, and the hordes of by-the-hour lawyers each child will hire to wrest pennies from each other’s inheritance.

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        True, and having large amounts of heirs with no skills or education needs a term like “inheritance imbreeding” since they will end up diluting the wealth-gene pool until they are left with nothing and hopefully go extinct after all the wealth has been absorbed into the general population. Or more likely, absorbed by a grifter.

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          It was messy, but the fuedal system did have a way of filtering out talentless failchildren that capitalism seems to lack 🔪

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        These people think wealth is generic, which is why it’s imperative to have as many kids as possible so they too can collect all the money and do a better effective Altruism at some point in the future. They’re devour followers of that Big Yud school of thought

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        True, and having large amounts of heirs with no skills or education needs a term like “inheritance imbreeding” since they will end up diluting the wealth-gene pool until they are left with nothing and hopefully go extinct after all the wealth has been absorbed into the general population. Or more likely, absorbed by a grifter.