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You don’t get away with it.

If you can’t walk into a pizzeria on a whim (thinking about sama this week), you no longer have your freedom.

The freedoms afforded by obnoxious wealth far outweigh the loss of anonymity. These folks could buy an entire franchise of pizzerias on a whim and have them transported to a chain of private islands in the Pacific.

The myth of the tortured life of the rich and famous is a joke.

Especially given it is a choice. There are ample billionaires who avoid media. The tech billionaires choose this.

Even more especially given it is a choice to be a completely unempathetic prick who thrives on being controversial and edgy

I don't follow, can Musk not do that? Also who/what is sama?

It's Sam Altman's HN username.

Without security?

Sure - but it’s a risk that people of the unknown variety don’t have.

Feels like the world that he created by hoarding vast sums of wealth, and limiting people's free speech, and cutting social safety net programs that put more and more people at risk as the world becomes less and less stable.

I would much rather have lived in the world where he could walk into a pizza place without security and fear. But I also would much rather have lived in the world where people had healthcare and they didn't have to fight companies like UHC tooth and nail to avoid getting their claims denied at every turn.

And the stability of this all comes from trust in Government regulation. Which he gutted, when he gutted the programs that were targeting him for committing fraud.

> I would much rather have lived in the world where he could walk into a pizza place without security and fear.

I’m not sure I would.

I think I’m okay with there being some remaining consequences for things you do to other people,

even if what you’ve done is legal.

You misunderstand me.

> I think I’m okay with there being some remaining consequences for things you do to other people,

I would rather live in the world where they hadn't done those things to other people. Not that I would rather people forgive them and let them into a pizza shop. It's a pizza shop, who cares, they have a million other ways to get pizza if they want it. Ostracism is the last response we have for the wealthy doing unacceptable things.

You can have a private chef make you michelin level pizza in the stone oven in the kitchen of your private jet though.

Can you also have private and vetted strangers eat and mingle around you,

so you feel like less of a pariah?

Sure, but who would want that?

Not me, that’s for sure.

I have a VC fund to pitch you. Need a co-founder? /s

I actually do,

but I like to serve humans, not serve humans.

Yes. I know a person that used to work in casting for such events.

My point was,

you’re still a social outcast,

no matter how much expensive Truman Show you set up around you.

Sounds like a prison. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t like that if i couldn’t appear in public. A luxury prison, but a prison nonetheless.

(Having the money would be nice, of course.)

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