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That's the incredible thing.

By all accounts he's remarkably accomplished and intelligent. To make everything worse, he's already impossibly rich. It's as if he's decided to just make the world a worse place because he can.



I do not know the man well enough to pass any judgement on him. But, your statement [1] raised a question in my mind: On the wiki page, there is an outline of his plan to eliminate global warming through geoengineering. I assume this will cost a lot of money. What if he is trying to build up his wealth so that one day he can fund a massive geoengineering project to help the earth's climate? He has demonstrated the desire at least.

[1] " It's as if he's decided to just make the world a worse place because he can."


What if he is trying to build up his wealth so that one day he can fund a massive geoengineering project to help the earth's climate?

That makes him sound like the love child of an Ayn Rand ubermensch and an L. Ron Hubbard hero.


Then he's a douchebag with a plan, rather than the other kind.

Ends do not justify means, etc


Etc? Why don't ends justify means?




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