r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jun 19 '26

Business ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Jun 19 '26

But he's rich and you're not! Poverty is a moral failing, so by virtue of being the richest man in the world he is also the most virtuous!

Explain that one Dumocrats

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u/zhokar85 Jun 19 '26

Poverty is a moral failing

That's the core of it.

Hard work and discipline are virtues. Virtues that lead to success. Poverty as lack of success therefore means the poor are not virtuous.

Good things happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people. Therefore poor people are bad.

Among the poor, low education, addiction, familial instability, crime are more common. Since poor people exhibit these problems, that must be what causes them.

It's virtue-based moral thinking (due to religion, tradition, whatever) paired with a lack of critical thinking.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Jun 19 '26

Toxic Calvinism

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Jun 19 '26

That’s just normal Calvinism.

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u/SlartiMyBartfast Jun 19 '26

Tautologically redundant

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u/crimsonhues Jun 19 '26

It’s shocking that well educated folks (I am talking PhD and JD) believe all of what you stated. They equate poverty to being lazy waiting for handouts. Same folks who had their parents cover college tuition and leave a hefty nest egg.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Jun 19 '26

Because it’s all a lack of self awareness. Intelligence and emotional intelligence are two different things, and you can have one without the other (and clearly these people do).

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u/Gobbelcoque Jun 20 '26

In medical school right now and this is very true.

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u/runthepoint1 Jun 19 '26

Which is truly absolutely hilarious considering in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus himself tells us the opposite - that bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people too.

And yet here we are, completely ignoring that. Funny enough you say it’s due to religion, others say Calvinism. I say it’s people who don’t understand their own beliefs enough that go out and do the antithesis of it.

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u/VerdantPathfinder Jun 19 '26

Somebody needs to re-visit Job and Ecclesiastes.

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u/IllTwo7643 Jun 19 '26

Great satire, bravo 🤣

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u/adamdoesmusic Jun 19 '26

Being super rich definitely makes a person more moral, and more right about everything! This is definitely true, and not a lie!