#OTD in 1870, Rockefeller incorporated the company that would make him almost inconceivably rich and, in many ways, begin the modern age of oil.
https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1480600834085994498
If I became a Billionaire, one of the things I would do as well is give lots of money to actual Scientists to invent things that need to be invented, without Government involved.
If I was a Scientist, & a Billionaire offered unlimited funds to invent shit to better Human life, I'd take the money & use it for good.
Why are there people still allowed to ruin a good thing? Every advancement is awesome until someone uses that new thing to lie & steal & control the population. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Maybe, just maybe if one of these days, we got serious & severely punished people that ruin a good thing for selfish reasons/greed, Make a few examples of these fucks, they would think twice.
Now imagine if we actuallyPUBLICLYSEVERELY punished all the people who broke the law, who sabotaged things for personal/financial/Political gains?
Futuristic movies are great & all, to see what could be & how Technology could be used as a net positive in every single persons life. But what those movies also do is remind me that there is always someone out there willing to ruin a good thing for all the world to benefit a minuscule fraction of scumbags
It's why we can't have nice things. Because anyone who destroys said nice things, get away with it to live life in comfort & excess.
Any of them that may have gotten busted for dirty deeds are allowed to keep it private & keep themselves out of jail with a boot
They have been laughing at us for YEARS now telling us to eat cake. Now they are at the point of also telling us the Cake is perfectly fine for us as long as everyone eats it
JUST IN: Convicted murderer and the real estate tycoon Robert Durst died in custody early this morning, his lawyer says
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1480614770072068096
NO!! THAT'S DIFFERENT