What Is the Grift?

Long termism is a way to effectively minimize the plight of people right now, while also making billionaires feel better about themselves spending money on science and technology. Is that kind of the grift? Like, i'd just love to understand, l if you had to explain this, how this is a grift, what would you say? I deferntly think that's part of it. Maybe he really does accept the underlying moral components of view. maybe he really is a total utilitarian who really does believe that the universe would just be better placed if we could just maximize a total impersonal value within our future licone. And so therefore, then he grabs hold of bostom's