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CMV: The mega-rich billionaires of the world are actually hindering their own maximum capacity of wealth by hoarding it. They each have enough money that they could more or less 'invent' something brand new through research and development and have a thriving monopoly over it.

When I think of some of humanity's greatest inventions and accomplishments, it would seem to me that someone with enough money could have created and achieved many of those things sooner if they'd had the mind to (or funded those who do) and thus would've been able to solely reap the rewards for their creation (like a privately funded NASA with a bigger budget, perhaps not totally unlike Elon Musk's ventures).

I'm thinking primarily of things that are almost inevitably going to become commonplace or extremely popular in the future (sophisticated and totally immersive virtual reality, cryptocurrency, lab-grown meat, etc.) but really I think there are many things "waiting" to be invented at any given time that we as humans could discover and develop simply with significant funding and focus. I think the wealthiest people and families in the world would actually become even wealthier (and perhaps inadvertently even make the world a better place in the process) if they used their excess wealth to fund their own private research and development companies that focused specifically on creating something new for the masses.
gpt
mega rich billionares do not hoard their wealth, it's almost entirely in assets.

putting your money into companies, bonds, real assets etc does do something for the world. hell, so much of what has been done in the pursuit of "making money" brings about a lot of good to the world.

>I think the wealthiest people and families in the world would actually become even wealthier (and perhaps inadvertently even make the world a better place in the process) if they used their excess wealth to fund their own private research and development companies that focused specifically on creating something new for the masses.

who exactly do you think runs all the companies that fund startups? yeah, people who are rich af.