List of high-net-worth people on holy wars with varying quixotic factor (QF) levels

Musk: "Woke mind disease" (QF: 5/10)
Pmarca: Pessimism (QF: 7/10)
Ackman: Higher education (QF: 5/10)
Thiel: Democracy (QF: 7/10)
Balaji: Nation states (QF: 6/10)
Bryan Johnson: Death (QF: 9/10)

Who am I missing?

Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

How would you define quixotic factor here?

How much the mission resembles tilting at windmills, which is subjective

How much they’d have to pay people to care about their crusades is one possible proxy measure

I don’t think any amount of money would get me to care enough to join Ackman’s crusade against “plagiarism” for eg

Yeah she counts. In general I’d count anyone with institutional capital of equivalent power to ~100m financial capital who takes on a broad crusade that attracts mostly apathy.

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In that case I'll submit:

Elizabeth Warren: rich people (7/10)

EW's net worth is >$10m so she counts as high-net-worth, and my observation is that few people are caring about her crusade in the past year.