If I were a billionaire, everyone would despise me because I would be doing absolutely insane things with my money, like trying to terraform Venus and launching interstellar probes. And wild stuff on the edge of science. I’d also try to LBO Spain. Just because.

And I’d welcome their hatred. Doing big crazy things is how you expand the scope of the possible. Nearly all billionaires are boring because they think so small. And most people — even billionaires — are quite dumb and not systems thinkers.