“Solipsism is a very difficult belief to maintain. No matter how sociopathic you are, there's always going to be a part of you that craves the approval, love and attention of others… This creates the very weird insistence on the part of the ultra-rich that they are actually philanthropists”
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... 15/