/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>24589387
I have noticed this decline not only in billionaires but also in all Western governments. My country for example, the Netherlands, used to undertake massive projects having to do with managing water. We reclaimed huge swaths of land in the 50s and 60s and built one of the world's most intricate and robust networks of dams, sluices, locks, dykes and levees in response to the flood of 1953.

Nowadays none of this is happening anymore. It's not a lack of plans, we still have those. For example the plan to put Amsterdam Schiphol airport a few miles into the sea, so it's growth isn't bottlenecked by the surrounding villages and the people living around the airport aren't bothered by the traffic. These plans have been collecting dust for at least 50 years. Why? I don't know. We have the expertise. We have the money. We have the labor force. What we lack for some reason is ambition in the places where it counts. Every time it's brought up, we have some faggy politicians whine and FUD and say: "B-but it's expensive, it will cost a lot of time, and most importantly, do we really want our airport to grow? Think of all the extra greenhouse gasses! Anyway, let's up the immigrant quota :)". It's infuriating.

Anyone else notice the same in their countries? I really feel like we're living the end stages of Rome. At some point a civilization just peters out. Not with a bang but with a politically correct whimper. Disgusting.

>>24589387
>re-marbling and adding gold trim to pyramids
>300mil

lmao

but yes i agree

i drove past vanderbilt university, shit was fucking gorgeous. i assume a lot of it had to be built back in the day, it looked it. it truly made me wonder why we dont appreciate things like that anymore

>>24589387
Arabs still do the outlandish project shit. Western billionaires are only interested in more wealth and power even though their bloodline is set up for both for many generations to come.

>>24589593
Unironically Neoliberalism. It's about individual action, market solutions and no long term Government planning or sense of civicism whatsoever. (There are no citizens or society, only consumers)
You do still get crazy projects in China (The great green wall where they're reseeding the entire Gobi and found a way to make sand hold moisture and nutrients) and the tacky Gulf Arab crap like Dubai but westerners have been completely cucked by Neolib mindset.

Western billionaires don't have almost any cash laying around (certainly not hundreds of millions). Their net worth is locked in various assets they usually can't easily liquidate without causing panic. Even possible to get sued.

>>24589593
yep, especially the last part. The death of passion is amongst us, also those who do things like this now would get screamed at and chastised for not spending that money on BLM rallies/bailing rioters out of prison. Billionaires are a big target so I believe if there are good ones, they’d lay quite low the days of people Seeing even a nice car and wanting to sit in it or ask the guy what work he does to get it are over. Now they see a nice car and instantly hate the dude or wanna smash/steal it

Elon musk?

>>24589783
While Space X is good (though largely based on already existing NASA and Soviet research), shit like Tesla and the Hyperloop are clearly VC ponzi schemes and aren't actually serious.

>>24589783
this, whats so uncool about mars?

>>24589593
Spiteful mutants

>>24589717
>>24589773
Spot on. It feels like all energy is directed towards progressive liberal causes. Not the understandable kind like equal rights for men and women, or abortion, or gay marriage, because we already addressed those issues years ago, but inane ones like "Do we need to spend more money on mosques? Should we implement ethnic and gender quotas in high positions? Should we force every household to stop using gas within the next 10 years?"

It drives me up the fucking wall anons. If I ever make it I will lobby the shit out of cool projects. Chinks and Arabs are making us look like lazy decadent unambitious FOOLS.

>>24589387
The families you are talking about are aristocracy not bourgeoisie. So you sound weird and uneducated using the term "bougie" like that.

Our modern aristocracy is all kikes, they don't do interesting things with their money they just hoard it up and rape kids.

>>24589943
based

>Just want to be rich so I can
>1: release Salt Water crocodiles around the isles in Greece and Southern Italy and Florida
>2: Get Australian huntsmen and release them all around southern England
>3: Get Jaguars/Leopards and release them around Southern America
>4: Release Kangaroos in Europe and England
>5: Relase Wombats in Europe and England
>6: Release Australian Magpies in New York Central Park in spring to attack people
>7: Release wolves and bears in England and Mainland Western Europe
>8: Release a fucktonne of Chimps around Oestrick ln Austin tx (Where Joe Rogan Lives)
>9: Breed Humans, Chimps, Bonobo's and Gorillas together to make new species of ape.

>>24589816
This. Everyone here needs to read Dutton. Look up the jolly heretic on youtube. We're fucked from dysgenics.

Vaccines? Pretty cool way to make population retarded.
Liberalism? Cool way to destroy civilization.
Face recognition? GPS location? Full control of your action by manipulation?

They are just imbeciles who like weird shit.
This timeline sucks unfortunately..

>>24590381
Its the final redpill

>>24589593
> dykes and levees
Unfortunately all the west now cares about is dykes and lesbians

The west will continue to collapse because it is now a gynocentric society. I like women and think they're great. But women are nesters, not builders. Gynocentric societies will never invest in massive engineering projects

It's unironically over for the west

And you can blame the atomic bomb for it

>the understandable kind like equal rights for men and women, or abortion, or gay marriage, because we already addressed those issues years ago
Faggot.

>>24589701
Again, Arabs and Chinks do it because phallocentric societies

>>24589387
you cant get rich without selling your soul anymore /thread

>>24589387
at the risk of sounding like a r*dditor, elon musk is the only person doing cool shit. everyone else is a jewish pedophile or a shill for jewish pedophilia (gates, bezos, etc.)

I get the feeling billionaires are disgusted by us now whereas they used to feel like our guardians, or kings. They no longer see themselves as belonging to the same species I don't think.

>>24589387
most modern billionaires are cucks to the establishment with zero hard cash, it's all assets and lines of credits and other jewish shit

>>24589773
> Billionaires are a big target so I believe if there are good ones, they’d lay quite low the days of people Seeing even a nice car and wanting to sit in it or ask the guy what work he does to get it are over. Now they see a nice car and instantly hate the dude or wanna smash/steal it.
I've seen this change occur over the past 20-25 years. In the 90's, we used to romanticize and look up to rich people and people with nice, flashy things in general. Nowadays, you'd have to be crazy to drive a car that costs more than like 80k or flash anything expensive. I think it has more to do with the fact that back then, the economy was a lot better and regular people had a shot at achieving those high levels of success, but nowadays I think they realize how fucked they are and how they will probably never have those things. i guess you would call that being disillusioned.

Honestly I don't get why they don't want to leave a legacy anymore. You still see the legacy of Robber Baron age porkies, with all their works of art deco public projects and Government engaged in this as well (Hoover Dam, across the top of it are all beautiful art deco installations and the Moscow Metro is another piece of amazing public art), Early-mid 20th century railway used to be genuinely luxurious even for lower-middle class people.
Now they just horde billions in their caves and if they decide to help fund a building, it's some ghastly modern eyesore like the dogshit skyscrapers you see them pour money into across London.

https://blakemasters.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-13-notes

They believe the future is negative, and that they cannot influence it. This is why they're obsessed with "eat the bugs", "you will own nothing" type thinking. They believe the decline is inevitable and all they can do is tinker around the edges to ease it.