I guess what bugs me about EA is that it has the distinct whiff of Andrew Yang's "Techno-Libertarians for UBI" song-and-dance to it—which is the 21st Century's version of Gilded Age Robber Barons endowing libraries and concert halls as a way to "buy their way into Heaven", after a lifetime of exploiting their workers and destroying the e…
I guess what bugs me about EA is that it has the distinct whiff of Andrew Yang's "Techno-Libertarians for UBI" song-and-dance to it—which is the 21st Century's version of Gilded Age Robber Barons endowing libraries and concert halls as a way to "buy their way into Heaven", after a lifetime of exploiting their workers and destroying the environment to get rich.
As has already been said about "Billionaire Charity"? Just pay your Gods-Damned taxes instead!
Yes, perhaps the difference in my perspective comes down to the question of what degree you see it as a top-down vs bottom-up process. If you see EA as being guided by the vision of (as Noah referenced) SPF or Musk (or Andrew Yang), that's not something that's very attractive to get involved with.
If you see it as a large group of (younger) people trying to do some good in the world and arguing endlessly about that constitutes "doing good in the world" -- that has obvious strengths and weaknesses but is much more sympathetic, and that's closer to the impression I have of EA.
I guess what bugs me about EA is that it has the distinct whiff of Andrew Yang's "Techno-Libertarians for UBI" song-and-dance to it—which is the 21st Century's version of Gilded Age Robber Barons endowing libraries and concert halls as a way to "buy their way into Heaven", after a lifetime of exploiting their workers and destroying the environment to get rich.
As has already been said about "Billionaire Charity"? Just pay your Gods-Damned taxes instead!
Yes, perhaps the difference in my perspective comes down to the question of what degree you see it as a top-down vs bottom-up process. If you see EA as being guided by the vision of (as Noah referenced) SPF or Musk (or Andrew Yang), that's not something that's very attractive to get involved with.
If you see it as a large group of (younger) people trying to do some good in the world and arguing endlessly about that constitutes "doing good in the world" -- that has obvious strengths and weaknesses but is much more sympathetic, and that's closer to the impression I have of EA.