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The starving, the down and outs, the unlucky, all who could really use that dollar for basic human needs. Mazlow.
That is where the “rich are cruel by definition” originates.
IMO, it's not the money itself, but how the money was acquired, and what is done with it. For example, 1. By delivering useful products and services or sabotaging competitors, making money by promoting hate or spreading knowledge (HN, take a bow) 2. By actually enriching the consumer or creating addictive/dark patterns or charging usurious interest rates, setting traps, obsoleting products quickly and so on. 3. By po…
Elon Musk also massively decreased the cost of spaceflight and accelerated the advent of electric cars.
People, despite other people's desire, are complicated and neither pure evil nor pure good.