I’m curious what the fascination is about hyping rich people in the eyes of media.

[reay@beige.party]

I’m curious what the fascination is about hyping rich people in the eyes of media. They’re just people with a lot of money.

I saw a headline a day or two ago about Musk wanting to put an ice cream machine on the moon.

Sincerely, so what?

Being rich doesn’t make people any more intelligent or creative or worthy of our positive attention than anyone else.

If the guy who stands at the corner and talks to himself all day says he wants to put an ice cream machine on the moon, everyone would of course ignore it. No attention, and certainly no news headlines. But a rich guy says it and suddenly it’s worth reporting on?

How about this: Unless it actually helps or hurts things we should know about — great environmental protection funds, feeding the hungry, or (way more likely) harming the environment and actively keeping food out of the mouths of starving masses, etc. — how about we just let the uber-rich go entirely unreported on? No more headlines for whatever random idea just falls out of their heads.

Thanks!

[lor@goingdark.social]

@reay

This is what happens when culture tells us to worship money.