by surprisetalk on 6/15/25, 1:12 PM with 9 comments
by api on 6/15/25, 2:55 PM
by lukev on 6/15/25, 2:37 PM
One thing that's incorrect is that modern billionaires are more altruistic than their historical predecessors, and less likely to engage in conspicuous consumption. That's quite incorrect. Musk and Bezos own plenty of yachts.
Modern billionaires also seem far less interested in donating to the general public good "out the door"... the trend these days is to form massive foundations for tax purposes, but still hold the reins pretty tightly to make sure we don't just do something as simple as building a public library or something that might let the money end up in the hands of the undeserving.
And the counterexamples are also counterexamples to the pattern in the article... Gates gives a lot of money away, for example, but he's also not the poster boy for T supplementation and aggressive business practices at this point.
by thefz on 6/16/25, 3:11 PM
> We don’t know what keeping moderately elevated testosterone levels does to someone, and my guess is that on net it’s positive.
TRT has wild side effects, including gynecomastia and shrinking of the testes.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on 6/15/25, 8:53 PM
by locopati on 6/16/25, 1:10 PM