#future billionaire

[wonyoungismn1glowup]

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*𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞<𝟑*

"𝑾𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒔?, 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒎"

░（ヘ雨ぢギく　たー凹ヽす憶益え往）

★彡𝟕 𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬彡★

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#cottagecore #make money #future millionare #billionaire #quotes #money #mean girls #regina george #ariana grande #black swan #mindset #future billionaire #wonyoungism #becoming that girl #that girl #glow up #clean girl #pink pilates princess #old money #rich girl #the wizard liz #song jia #motivation #motivating quotes #motivateyourself #cinnamon girl

[chloeworships]

God told me to say that Drake is going to be a billionaire. He’s already told us this via the Scotiabank message I recorded just a few months ago.

#FUTURE billionaire #stay focused #with love from God with INTEREST % #aka Double Portion #Remember the King Solomon blessing

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.

it's November, please fucking vote

#not a shitpost #serious post #this election cycle will DETERMINE what legislation gets passed #it will DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF ABORTION RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBTQ+ PROTECTIONS #the supreme court plans to destroy as much progress as possible and that means we have to rely on congress to protect those rights #which they can only do if the Dems control the senate and the house #we are in FULL BLOWN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE here #especially because it is still somehow perfectly possible and actually probable #that the festering pile of garbage in human form who recently tried to overthrow the government will end up back on the ballot in 2024 #we still haven't recovered from 4 years of trump and if we don't show up at the polls it is perfectly possible we will get another 4 years #vote this november to protect basic human rights #and vote in november 2024 so we don't have to survive another 4 years under trump #because many of us--the most vulnerable of us--won't survive. and many many more will suffer #vote to protect yourself and your neighbors. vote to protect those who most need protection. #vote because it is the right thing to do #vote out of kindness #and vote out of spite--because billionaires are spending insane amounts of money to prevent you from voting #so tell them to get fucked and vote anyway #do it out of spite and do it out of heart and do it out of rage and do it out of love #show up #us politics

[talkshitgetcrit]

The year is 2022, San Diego Comic Con just happened with major studios announcing and teasing some of their biggest upcoming projects, among them several new marvel movies and amazon’s rings of power, just to name a few.

Now let’s look what’s trending on tumblr.com!

…My Chemical Romance, One Direction, and on #1; a game about an orange cat (it has a meow button!)

Great job you guys, I love you all, and i sincerely hope Disney and Amazon go bankrupt <3

#i see a great morbin’ future for all of these projects!!! <3 #i hate rings of power so much already and it has nothing to do with any of the actors’ skin color and everything to do with Amazon #the show is going to suck so hard and i sincerely hope it tanks and Jeff bezos loses money over it #fuck billionaires but jeff bezos and Elon musk especially #sdcc22 #stray #my chemical romance #one direction #marvel #morbius #rings of power

[savage-rhi]

Heya. It's Kreestmass Eve. You're probably feeling a lot right now. Good and bad. I want you to sit with those feelings. Sit with them for a good 20 minutes or an hour if you need it. Comb through them, address their concerns, break bread with them, etc.

When your time is up, look them in the eye and say "this was a pleasant time. We addressed a lot, and now it's time for me to go. If y'all are still feeling worried, we can book another hour later today or tomorrow, but not right now."

Then I want you to practice some self care. Whatever that looks like for you. Get to your good. Nothing else matters. Not your obligations to a holiday or whatever preconceived expectations others have for you. You matter.

I love you.

It's going to be okay.

We're gonna be okay.

I'm going to give myself a chocolate mustache with my hot cocoa and pretend I'm a dignified gentleman of great importance and speak in a terrible English Cockney accent. I hope you join me because you're also a dignified gentleman of great importance (with a better Cockney accent to boot...). Even when your feelings tell you otherwise.

Remember, there is no obligation. You don't owe anyone anything (...but I do think you'd look rather dashing with a chocolate mustache. Just sayin'. *cough*).

*kisses your forehead*

Merry Chrysler, honey. I'm overjoyed because you're still here 💙🫂

#mental health #christmas #christmas eve #depression #chronic pain #self care #fibromyalgia #sending everyone love cause many need it this time of year #myself included #family #hot cocoa #i love you #lgbtq community #lgbtq #nonbinary #also may every billionaire get visited by the ghosts of Christmas past present and future and it scares the Benjamin's outta them

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Future’

Naomi Alderman burst onto the scene in 2016 with The Power, an explosive and brilliant feminist apocalyptic parable. Now, seven years later, she's back with a chunky, propulsive second novel about a very different sort of apocalypse: The Future:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Future/Naomi-Alderman/9781668025680

The Power was a thriller about a mysterious force that gives women the power to administer violent electric shocks – even lethal ones – from the palms of their hands. As this power races around the world, the status quo is abruptly shattered. Abusers get nasty surprises. The Saudi government topples. Parents of teenaged boys demand sex-segregated classes to protect their sons from vicious girls:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/10/naomi-aldermans-the-power-in-which-fierce-power-of-women-is-awoken/

In The Future, we get a very different kind of apocalypse: the imagined apocalypse of the prepper. At the core of prepperism is a fantasy: that the world will experience a cataclysm that requires the special skills and supplies of the prepper themselves. Water chemists who turn prepper fantasize about attacks on the water-supply – not because there's any special reason to expect one, but because if terrorists attack the water supply, then water chemists become civilization-rescuing heroes:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/22/preppers-are-larpers/#preppers-unprepared

(And of course, if the world ends in such a way that marauding bandits rove the wasteland, eating their former neighbors, then macho, AR-15-obsessed musketfuckers get to reinvent themselves as warlords who defend the sheeple from "bad guys.")

This is what makes billionaire prepper fantasies just so weird – for most of us, it's hard to imagine how the skills of a billionaire are the one thing we'll need to see us through a crisis. But for billionaires themselves, the necessity of billionaires in rebooting civilization is so self-evident as to be unquestionable.

What's more, billionaires are convinced – more than any of us – that the world is about to end. As Douglas @Rushkoff puts it, these guys want to earn enough money to outrun the consequences of how they're making all that money. This is #TheMindset, the idea that your own position has jeopardized civilization itself, but that also, you must survive the cataclysm, because only you can survive it.

Rushkoff chronicles the real-world fantasies of luxury bunkers patrolled by mercenaries locked into explosive discipline collars in his book Survival of the Richest:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn

But billionaires don't just suck at running civilization, they also suck at making up stories about its collapse. One thing that's striking about Rushkoff's ethnography of rich people preparing to outlive the end of the human race is how banal their eschatological fantasies are.

It's not that there aren't any exciting stories to tell about billionaire survival fantasies. The granddaddy of these is, of course, Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 "#MasqueOfTheRedDeath":

https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death

I published an updated version with the same title in 2019 in my novella collection #Radicalized:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/masque-of-the-red-death/#masque

In The Future, we get a cracking, multi-point-of-view adventure novel about billionaires prepping for the end of the world. Three billionaires, the lords of thinly veiled analogs to Facebook, Google and Amazon, each getting ready in their own way. Stumbling into their midst comes Lai Zhen, a prepper influencer vlogger with millions of followers.

When Zhen becomes romantically entangled with Martha Einkorn, the top aide and chief-of-prepping for one of these billionaires, she finds herself in possession of an AI chatbot that is devoted to protecting a very small number of people from incipient danger. This chatbot determines that Zhen is being stalked by an assassin at a mall in Singapore, and guides her to safety.

The chatbot is a closely held secret among the tech billionaire cabal. It is designed to monitor world events and predict when The Event is imminent, be it disease, war, or other cataclysmic disaster. With the chatbot's predictive powers and its superhuman guidance, the billionaires, their families, and their closest confidantes will be able to slip away before the shit hits the fan, fly by different private jets to one or another luxury bunker, and wait out the apocalypse. Once the fires raging without have died down to embers, the chatbot's billionaire charges will emerge to assume their places as wise and all-powerful leaders of the next human civilization.

As you might imagine, not everyone who finds out about this plan – including various members of the billionaires' families who are fully aware of these rich, powerful people's fallibility – is enthusiastic about it. As we build toward a looming crisis, we cycle between these family members, Zhen and her hacker buddies, and members of an online prepper community where Einkorn is a kind of provocateuse and eminence grise.

Alderman skillfully maneuvers all these power players and blocs into position before detonating the crisis that sets off the book's second act, where we get into some damned fine Masque of the Red Death territory, but clad in Tony Stark mecha survival suits and against a backdrop of total disaster.

I won't give away any spoilers here, except to say that there are lots of twists (that won't surprise readers of The Power, which had its own excellent surprises). But without delving too deeply into the fake-outs, crosses, and turns that Alderman lays, I will say that this is a fantastic and incredibly satisfying comeuppance novel that gets very deep into the ideology of wishing the world would end, and dreaming that when it does, you will finally matter.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/#the-event

#pluralistic #naomi alderman #the future #books #science fiction #apocalypse #billionaires #abolish billionaires #big tech #maneki neko #preppers #gift guide

[cubikzoa]

Feeling like someone should run a similar sort of spambot generator that we get on Tumblr on Twitter. But it’s all Elon Musk bots with bootleg Elon profile pics and their posts and comments still sound like Elon, because let’s be fair, that’s easy bc he’s stupid and predictable.

Just, like, a billion different fake Elons and one real Elon like one giant game of spambot Among Us. Absolute chaos and desolation. The final squeaky rubber nail in the Twitter Clown Coffin.

I think he would be so absolutely infuriated he’d turn red and explode like a Looney Tunes character

#twitter #twitter funny #funny tweets #funny twitter tweets #Spambots funny #Jokes #tumblr jesters #10k #20k #fyp #Elon Musk #bird app #Humor #tumblr humor #queue #shitposts #tumblr culture #we are the future of socials #for worse not better mwahahahaaa #Be mean to billionaires they can afford it #Heheheh #40k #30k #infamous posts #tumblr heritage

[runawaymarbles]

at this point i am simply uninterested in any opinion on a hot-button political topic that treats human beings as a mass of meaningless hypotheticals

#this goes for all of them!!!!!! #some people may die and that is the cost of the economy going #those are real people! #pro life people who shrug off the number of complexities and ways their laws will ruin lives for a nebulous greater good they can't define #pro choice people who groupthink each other into forgetting that a lot of people do want to be pregnant and the loss of a baby is a tragedy #places that don't think accessibility laws should apply to them #people who unironically advocate for murdering billionaires #people who shrug off mass casualty events because they think one side or the other had it coming/is not sympathetic enough #idk I think everyone should spend some time around babies (most future members of some undesierable class or another) #and have a good long think about the work that goes into making a person and the amount of impact people have on the lives of others #and those who haven't or don't know someone who has gone through the loss of a child should really think.about what that is like. #sorry fam im' editing a stillborn shoot and i'm very tired of the internet actually #op

[viejospellejos]

Mercedes Benz Vision AVTR

#video #sfw #supercoche #supercoches #supercar #supercars #mercedes #mercedes benz #vision #vision avtr #avtr #epic #future #billionaires #billionaire #avatar

[protoslacker]

The future of technological progress, Rushkoff argues, is now an experimental endgame in which the wealthiest and most powerful race to find the escape hatch; it is less about raising up humanity than rising above the rest of us.

Jared Marcel Pollen in The Nation. Why Billionaires Are Obsessed With the Apocalypse

In Survival of the Richest, Douglas Rushkoff gets to the bottom of the tech oligarchy’s fixation on protecting themselves from the end times.

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

In his review Pollen cited Neil Postman in explaing what Rushkoff refers to as "The Mindset." That mention got me reading an article by Postman from 1974. Postman asks what it would take to move schooling in a more humae and sensible direction? I would like to see that sort of question asked quite broadly.

#billionaires #future #fascism #book #technology

[reinarandraw]

When your boyfriend is a billionaire CEO of a multinational company who travels around the world so often so your main communication with him is through chat and video calls.

A dumb thing I made for my coffee shop - billionaire AU Bellhands. Please check Coffee Philosophy tag for more

the one who took the picture is Paul

#izzy hands #our flag means death #sam bellamy #bellhands #Coffee Philosophy AU #man this is so dumb #more post like this in the future because I need a reason to draw slutty sexy Sam #Text Between Barista and His Billionaire BF

[winepresswrath]

the devil judge is interesting because the male leads are not canonically fucking, but the plot only makes sense if they're fucking, and also I hate that they're fucking because I feel so bad for "pretend" fascist Batman's niece, his other minions who he's not sexually obsessed with, and if I'm being real also for Batman himself, who is an annoying person but still deserves a better boyfriend. sorry to all other devil judge fans. Every day I invent new ways to watch shows incorrectly.

#listen I do think when they sold their souls to a mercurial billionaire for vengeance and a dream of a better future #they signed up for some nonsense #it comes with the territory! #but yohan is eating at McDonalds when he has #a handsome and loyal underling at home >:( #and a five course gourmet meal stalking and harassing him while trying to make him her puppet president

[desertsportshipping]

Wes hated Chairman Rose on principle. A big businessman who makes performative gestures to cover for all the shady shit Macro Cosmos was doing. He was the head of the League, bringing entertainment to all of Galar! What kind of clout chasing asshole would you have to be to criticize Rose?

He was too similar to Es Cade for Wes’s liking.

His hatred deepened when he went exploring the Galar mines for the first time, tasked with retrieving Leon from the maze of tunnels into the earth. He could spot every single poorly maintained beam, every rusty pulley, every failure of safety protocol. The mine wasn't on the brink of disaster, but it was heading there through negligence.

Wes had seen firsthand what the failure of one bolt could do. Orre used to be a thriving desert, filled with flora and Pokefauna, made up of underground mining towns connected to the surface through one or two way towns. But one bolt in a support beam of one mine failed, and the mine collapsed. In a series of explosive chain reactions, town after underground town collapsed, spilling out toxic fumes that wiped out almost everything. Even to this day, there are no wild Pokemon, and the scars of the catastrophic event can be felt by the region's few hundred inhabitants.

Wes had been one of the unlucky survivors. No one went out into the desolate wasteland looking for survivors: only criminals looking for corpses to rob. One Team Snagem member realizing that he had been still breathing was all it took to seal his fate.

When Wes had found Leon, he had grabbed the man's hand and refused to let go, guiding them out of the labyrinthine death trap of a man. Chairman Rose was waiting outside with his secretary, and his flippant attitude to making sure that the mine was safe, that the lives of people now were not as important as hypothetical people in the future, made Wes's blood boil.

He kept his mouth shut. He kept his mouth shut about the veiled disgust in Rose's eyes when he saw Wes holding Leon's hand, as if he were Muk, dirtying the Champion with gross Orre germs (although Oleana's disgust was much more obvious). He kept his mouth shut through the patronizing comments about how he wouldn't understand Rose's grand vision of the future. He kept his mouth shut, because he knew his reputation was of the suspicious Orre foreigner and speaking up will just hurt his chances further.

Wes Wolf was named after Lycanroc, a species of hunters. He noticed how vigorously Leon defended him, staying by his side as the cracks started to form in the already tenuous relationship between Leon and Rose. He noticed how Oleana kept glaring at Rose with daggers when the man wasn't looking, how she was probably planning on usurping her boss and taking control of the company. He noticed how Rose omitted a lot in his description of the ideal future, as if he only cared about the future because it was something he could shape to his worldview.

A hunter knows when to wait for the optimal time to strike. So Wes bit his tongue and waited, because he is the Desert Bandit, Apex Predator of Orre, Protector of the Wilds, and Chairman Rose is his prey.

#another brain dump from yours truly #leon: why doesn't rose like Wes :(( #Wes: (planning out how to persistence hunt rose for sport) #Wes doesn't like oleana either #otherwise he'd be in full support of her girlbossing #anyways back to my insanity #the way rose talks about the future in swsh is in line with futurism #the idea that human conditions right now don't matter as long as the future of humanity thousands of years from now is secured #futurism is very popular among billionaires esp tech ceos #and these same people are also weirdly into eugenics #almost as if the fundamental ideals of futurism and eugenics are inherently linked in some way #and it's bad that these people who are so influential in our politics are into it #i would say this is heavy for Pokemon but there are multiple times that the bad guys commit war crimes #x and y literally brought up a pokemon war where a lot of Pokemon died and death weapons and shit #anyways all this to say that Wes is gonna beat the shit outta Rose #also Leon and rose don't like each other #the pr front is that Leon and rose are friends but they're more like coworkers maintaining a professional relationship

[askfacultystaff]

Picrew Pictures.

Rita Loud and her son, Leopold Loud

For @neko-sufis-world.

Millionaire! Ramayana Raid AU

Waiter! Girl Funko: Some free time today, but we're so glad we earned more money! I love this job! ^v^

Billionaire! Usagi-Haji: Agreed 😌

(That's actually grape juice if you see what Usagi holding -v-)

Aftermath Of Incident AU

Rama and Ramayana outside

Rama and Ramayana inside

Lori: Summer literally rocks, girls 😉✌

#education and learning #basically basics #rita loud #leopold loud #the loud house #future au #waiter! girl funky funko #girl funky funko #the funky house #genderbend au #usagi haji #billionaire! usagi haji #alternate universe #rama raid #ramayana raid #silent! rama raid #silent! ramayana raid #lori loud #summertime vibes #picrew

[jjbizconsult]

The 10 wealthiest cities in BRICS are home to a growing number of billionaires and millionaires. 

#BRICS #wealth #cities #economy #development #globalization #business #investment #finance #billionaires #millionaires #centimillionaires #GDP #geopolitics #G7 #future

[storm-of-feathers]

It was only one billionaire on the sub btw idk where anyone got the five number. Two of the other people were milllionaires (still mildly objectionable but MUCH less so. For context the difference between them is 32 years and 11 days. One of them is definitely more severe) and the other two were a researcher who was likely hired to talk ab the titanic as they explored it and a 19 year old teenager who was reportedly terrified to get on the sub. So.

#like do i think the billionaire deserved execution: obviously. #do i think anyone else on the sub did? not necessarily. #do i specifically think a teenager forced by his father #and the researcher who was trying to prevent future similar disasters deserved it? obviously NOT. #idk why everyone is so cool with sacrificing at least two undeserving lives to end one other one #and in a way that isnt the result of a fair trial (a human right.) and doesnt further fuck up our oceans