Wealth inequality

On billionaires and the ultra-wealthy

The Hollow King, wired for insatiability, cannot pause. Acceleration itself has become a drug. Sufficiency is inconceivable. Each breakthrough is only a threshold toward the next. Competition becomes an arms race: if I don’t do it, someone else will. This logic justifies dragging the entire species into irreversible experiments. And all of it is underwritten by a messianic ego, the conviction that they alone were chosen to…