Not Done Taking

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I looked around my office, at all of my nice things, and I asked myself whether I earned this stuff that I own, and the answer was a definite “Not yet.”

I knew I wasn’t done taking either. The new medicine I was about to begin using costs thousands of dollars per month. I said that capitalism has been good to me. But I don’t have that kind of money. Almost no one does.

The truth is, I owe everything I have, and everything that I am, to capitalism. How much is that really worth? How much am I really worth? That’s the question isn’t it?

Why was it worth keeping me alive for another year? Or 50? Was I really going to produce enough value to society to compensate for the immense burden that I put on our healthcare system? Not yet I’m afraid. I need you all to keep funding me for a little while longer. But then I will pay you back with significant gains on your investment.

I PROMISE.

How am I going to do that?

With my new theory of money and my new programming language together, I am going to solve…

No. Get this.

Ready?

ALL OF THE WORLD’S FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

That’s right. I said all of them, and I mean it.

When I’m done with capitalism we aren’t going to suffer from financial problems anymore. Only real problems. Maybe if I finish #fixingcapitalism early I will have time to work on some of the real problems too. But I know I have to carve out a niche to dominate with my startup. So, financial problems are my niche.

Anyway, I am going to solve all of them, then I will no longer owe you. You will owe me. And then I can stop feeling bad about being such a privileged freaking taker.

After all, financial problems, and not real ones, are the biggest problems we face as a species.