[scyzoryk_xyz]

For one, he’s one of the OG’s who’s had vast wealth and power for longer than many others have been alive.

And two, he’s at an age where people lose any sense of self-awareness, shame, filters - all that shit.

Anyways I don’t think he cares that it makes him sound Orwellian. I suspect he’s fine with being Orwellian outright. Not having what he has is as unimaginable as for all of us having a fraction of what he has. It’s too much of a stretch for someone like that to extent so much to imagine.

And yeah it’s frightening, it’s why we did away with autocratic Sun King calibre aristocracy/royalty and all that. We can expect all the other zillionaires to follow this path reliably over the next few decades.

[yapyap]

I doubt it’s the age of him, it moreso feels like the age of society.

With Musk swinging his arm to in the air to hail his führer it really feels like the defining moment of new age rich people, don’t get me wrong the build up was there but this is just the moment that best encapsulates it all.

The best person to personify the old age I’d say is Bill Gates, awful person behind the curtains I’m sure, real buddy buddy with Epstein but he did the whole “caring for humanity” shtick, he donated bits of his money, y’know he at least took some effort to make it seem like he cared.

[JumpCrisscross]

> With Musk swinging his arm to in the air to hail his führer it really feels like the defining moment of new age rich people

We're five days into the Presidency. And Musk has stumbled across power the sorts he hasn't really had to wrangle with before. I'd be shocked if he comes out in 2028 better off, materially, than he is now.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

It's probably not a good idea to piss off people with corporeal power.

Xi makes a lot less than Jack Ma, but I think that he showed him who's In Charge.

[JumpCrisscross]

> corporeal power

?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Meaning power over the body (armed thugs, for example). Bit of a play on words.

Ma has power over the money, but Xi has power over Ma's body.

Rich people often think that money is everything (and they are usually correct), but there are some things that money can only buy, when facing a bat with nails driven through it.

[scyzoryk_xyz]

*Rich people in America

How much you “make” is a silly concept in many places in the world. “People with guns listening to you” is the real power.

[NewJazz]

Presumably the PRC/CCP is a body in this metaphor.

[NewJazz]

Gates [...] real buddy buddy with Epstein

Were those ties more business and philanthropic oriented or socially oriented?

I found this while searching for details surrounding the ties between the two:

The billionaire has acknowledged that he "shouldn't have had dinners with him" while his ex-wife Melinda French Gates said the business and technology magnate's relationship with Epstein played a role in their divorce.

However, the claim that Gates visited Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands 37 times has not been substantiated.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-bill-gates-visit-eps...

[scyzoryk_xyz]

I don’t mean age as in age of empires, I mean age as in old guy with no social filter anymore age.

Most people around 60-70 usually become quite shameless and cringey in one way or another.

As for Gates, he was dragged through anti-trust at a time when there were no other tech billionaires to team up with. His tech did not give him global reach - he just made a lot of money on office cubicle software back then.

But generally, yes. Absolutely - guy throwing salute is a defining moment of zillionaire IDGAF. Anti-trust success or failure is going to become the defining turning point for millennial generation.