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This is what happens when you are raised in a way that makes you believe you will never face harm and will never fail. You can even be 56 years old and not the healthiest person alive and say "let the old people get it" because you are not "one of the people", not a "pesky human" you are special, protected by money and power, even when Covid got the rich too.
That people can be raised this way and completely feel like they are their own lifeform at this point is what is wrong with the difference between rich and not even poor, just normal people, getting bigger and bigger.
There is a step above and that's someone like Musk or Thiel who are their own entity that they dream of leaving earth and living on Mars, because "people" don't interest them at all, except they live in 10.000 years from now. Someone like them is literally saying "let all the people get it", "let all the world destroy itself with climate change" because I can leave before it will harm me.
https://screenrant.com/elon-musk-longtermism-philosophy-explained/