The bad news? Steve fucking Jobs still has a devoted postmortem following for no fucking reason except that people felt that cool with ipods and iphones while he was being an abusive asshole to everyone around him and stealing credit from people that actually made things. 
He will be a footnote in a history book on the last days of the barbaric ideology known as capitalism. With things like the Cyber Truck being noted as one of the many poorly made expensive junk that wealthy fools wasted money on before mankind truely matured.
We will look on this era the same way people look at the eras where we threw pee out onto the streets and burned witches “How did they love like that?”
He might not even be mentioned by name, probably more like “As the hight of the collapse of capitalism, Western resources were poured into the control of a handfull of incompetent US oligarchs, who enjoyed the massive wealth, and delivered little of value in return.”
The 2010s-2020s will be seen as the second Gilded Age and Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos will be remembered alright, but as robber barons.
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When have there ever been 1 billion Buddhists?
There’s like half a billion now, so there’s probably been a billion total cumulatively.
No that doesn’t count, it’s just the same souls over and over
I assumed 1B would have to revere simultaneously. Kind of like a Spirit Bomb situation.
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Spirit bombs take energy from everything including inanimate objects too, which includes dead people.
Wow that’s bs. Then why call it spirit bomb?
I think everything, including inanimate objects having spirits is a traditional Japanese belief
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Buddhism probably peaked in %age of the world population around 200BCE-1000CE, when it was spread across most of India and China. Like every religion it’s probably peaking in absolute numbers either now, or sometime in the past half century, at about 500 million.
Super hard to estimate populations far back in time, but seems quite likely more than 1/8th of the world’s population followed it at one time, at least.
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Nobody will remember Elon Musk ten years after his death, and that will be a good thing. The engineers who actually did any of the good inventions will come out.
His brainwormism is equally as harmful as every impact he’s had on the material world.
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you see an engineer is when you make a phone but a god is when you abandon your family and stab all your business partners in the back and generally just treat everyone around you like shit
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Obviously I’m not arguing for the deification of Jobs, but by this person‘s logic Jobs is way closer to “godhood” than Elon. There’s way more people out there using Apple products than driving Teslas.
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these people are so fucking delusional with such twisted warped anti-human values that i cant imagine what sort of social environment they live in which sustains this cope
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makes sense, amazing how gamers are consistently assholes
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While this might fall into the category of religious delusion, I think it’s more likely some grift that positively absurd. A delusion is not something someone can control, and I’d bet this person made a conscious decision to be this bad.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Was there even 1B people in the world 2000 years ago?
“simp 4 satoshi”
Does anyone remember that one guy who’d post to the anarchism comm on lemmy (I think) who write posts like “Let us all give thanks to Satoshi for inventing bitcoin” in this weirdly Christian liturgical cadence?
This sorta reminds me of that
Ulysses, you’re back! We missed you!
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Are they operating on Elder Scrolls logic?
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