It would probably help the inventive environment to dispute the Occupy sort of nonsense that building and owning a fortune through legitimate means makes you a bad person. I know a cryonicist (who goes by the name unperson on the internet) who actually believes this, yet he complains about affording his cryonics arrangements as he gets older. Go figure.
Instead I like to view the super-rich as early adopters of future living standards. Refer to this essay by Thomas Donaldson, for example:
It would probably help the inventive environment to dispute the Occupy sort of nonsense that building and owning a fortune through legitimate means makes you a bad person. I know a cryonicist (who goes by the name unperson on the internet) who actually believes this, yet he complains about affording his cryonics arrangements as he gets older. Go figure.
Instead I like to view the super-rich as early adopters of future living standards. Refer to this essay by Thomas Donaldson, for example:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59655111/History-to-3400-AD