[kcaseg]

Probably the money gambled away on slop AI startups in a single week could sustain thousands of museums like this for decades

[laughing_man]

"Gambled away" is an unfair characterization. People will get rich off of AI, too. We just don't know who yet.

Nobody is going to make money on museums. As such, you either provide for them through tax dollars or you convince people to donate.

[CrzyLngPwd]

Or the money they sent to Ukraine.

[aetherson]

Money spent on startups isn't charity, you do it in the expectation of (in aggregate) profit -- so it's not rivalrous with charities. People who might support museums earn money on investments that they can then use for charities.

If you believe that you are better at picking winners (slop startups vs non-slop startups) than the rest of the investment world, then that's a valuable skill that you could use to earn a lot of money that you could then use to support museums if you choose.

[idiotsecant]

It's a deeply capitalist perspective to respond to a criticism of the excesses and inefficiency of wild, unfounded capital speculation with 'Well if you so smart, why ain't you rich?!?'

[tempfile]

I agree completely. Museums, culture, and other wasteful/pointless excesses should be deducted from profits - at the discretion of the profiteer - only after the actually useful work of poisoning the drinking water to generate pornography is complete.

Long live the overlords.