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Elon Musk, Bezos as a Villain, and Trillionaires Fleeing Earth
from "Bros" | The Tim Dillon Show #318 (ft. Greg Stone) · #318
6 min
Tim gives a mixed take on Elon Musk as a fame-seeking Carnival Barker with good broad ideas, then pivots to Jeff Bezos fully embracing villain status, automating jobs, and billionaires building bunker compounds to escape a planet they're bored with.
- Tim likes things about Elon but thinks he's a carnival barker who won't get anyone to Mars in their lifetime.
- Tim met Elon at a New Year's thing and relates to his desire for attention, though acknowledges that's maybe not great for someone that powerful.
- Wanting people to laugh at his tweets beats the worst things billionaires have done, like genocide.
- Bezos is embracing the villain role, which Tim respects—he's openly taking jobs and consolidating retail power.
- Tim imagines Jeff Bezos fully committing to villainy instead of trying to seem relatable with yachts and houses.
- Tim predicts trillionaires within our lifetime with wealth exceeding entire country GDPs.
- Modern billionaires are bored with Earth and trying to leave the planet, unlike past billionaires who built railroads and schools.
- Billionaires are consulting scientists about climate change because they want to relocate somewhere else.
- Wealthy people are buying Montana and Wyoming compounds with private water supplies and hundreds of acres.
- Tim shows examples of futuristic architecture—the Razor House and Mustafar—as the aesthetic billionaires should actually live in.