"Expensive hobby," marveled the Professor. "Are there really such people?"
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"Expensive hobby"
It's probably less a hobby and a more a shrug and the thought, "What else am I going to do with all of this money and power that will distract me from the fact that all his money and power can't keep me from dying?" Of course the answer could be, "Making the world a better place." But nobody who is rich and powerful actually cares about that. I'm certain "Fuck poor people" is in the top five most common phrases spoken by the rich and the powerful.
"Are there really such people?"
Don't be naïve, Professor. You're selling technological inventions to one of them right now. A man who will probably treat the thing you invented—a thing that could probably make the world a far better place—as a toy and a source of income. You'd think people such as these would eventually be driven out of humanity, scolded and shamed for making the world a worse place for so many. But if Tom Joad couldn't ever punch them all in the face and take them all down, I don't see it ever happening.
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