[ExI] new job

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM efc--- via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >       Will Musk become the first trillionaire?
> >
> > I think so. The main reason being that while mars might remain out of reach
> > for a minute, asteroid mining to (ostensibly) pay for mars exploration, may
> > not be so far out of reach. I would love to see someone crash Psyche softlyish
> > into the moon and mine the crash site for the next 100 years... it would at
> > least make an interesting science fiction story.
>
> That would be a nice story! Fascinating mega project too! The world needs more
> ambitious megaprojects. When ever I am bored with life, I wish there were more
> moonshots around.

Having the metals of Psyche available would make a lot of megaprojects
possible that we simply don't have enough iron for today.

> >       If he cracks the next wave, maybe
> >       he will be the one. I also wonder about if the first trillionaire will
> >       send shocks throughout the more leftist crows and if the power they will
> >       wield will make them targets for nation states?
> >
> > Not anywhere that they can buy politicians... which is EVERYWHERE.
>
> Well, there is currency as currency, and then there is power. Could a case be
> made that Xi of China is the first trillionaire? Or is the party full of
> factions that we do not see? Despite not owning a single share, he has a lot of
> control over a huge country and industr apparatus.

A case could be made that Putin was the richest person on the planet,
until he wasted all that money on his Ukraine adventure.

-Kelly