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lovichyesterday at 7:31 PM1 replyview on HN

You’ve got some copium in there. Why wouldn’t billionaires want a few famous professors they can buy to teach their children the same way Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle.

You don’t have to share the education time for your kids with the poor and think of how exclusive and how much status is advertises.

As for everything else you said about it not being in the interest of the billionaires. Even if you are 100% correct they have enough money to pay someone else to deal with any frictions in life and not think about it.

On top of that, if you look at their behavior, there’s a lot of similarities between the wealthiest in society and how they treat money, and how addicts treat heroin. Addicts frequently engage in self destructive behavior for the next hit.


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andixyesterday at 8:34 PM

This is not true. Billionaires rely on public safety. To fly their private jets around the world they need ATC and airports. They need police, so angry people don't buy rockets and shoot their planes down.

They also want to chill at their pool, without hundreds of people outside rioting. They want to drive their sports cars somewhere.

They don't want to live their life in a zombie apocalypse shelter.

And how good will those bought professors be, if they didn't work at a good university?

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