[Linkpost] "Capital Ownership Will Make You Go Crazy First" by Jan_Kulveit

Podcast: LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · LessWrong

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

This is a link post. People worried about a “permanent underclass” often assume that owning capital will protect them from disempowerment, or at least that they will be disempowered last, after the jobless masses dependent on UBI. I think something else is more likely: owning large amounts of capital will get you disempowered sooner than average, just by a different path, namely going crazy. How? The basic mechanism is actually easy to understand on a human level. One of the things difficult about being a billionaire is staying true to your values and keeping good epistemics. Why? Because a gr...