Earthly pleasures have no meaning, all that does is line go up

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    Previous elites had taste, and so their legacies live on in quasi-immortality through their posessions. The current elite are so subsumed within Capital all of their legacy will evaporate once they are gone.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      23 days ago

      Contemporary billionaires are still chasing the Steve Jobs mystique so they present themselves in incredibly boring and bleak ways with pretentious yet empty glass and steel temples to their own narcissism.