{"id":14179,"date":"2026-04-23T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:35:43","slug":"there-will-be-campfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/there-will-be-campfire\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be Campfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/05\/billionaire-consequence-free-reality\/686588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BILLIONAIRES AT JEFF BEZOS\u2019S PRIVATE RETREAT<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/noah-hawley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noah Hawley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/pU9WUObiJGgn3gTx9M6n66vkXDU=\/12x0:2012x1125\/1440x810\/media\/img\/2026\/04\/06\/WEL_Hawley_BillionairesRedo\/original.png\" alt=\"Illustration in style of color woodcut of people sitting on logs around wood bonfire on beach at night raising glasses of red wine with butlers serving in background.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Illustration by Tim Enthoven<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end\u00a0of Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s 2007 movie,\u00a0<em>There Will Be Blood<\/em>, Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano\u2019s preacher to death with a bowling pin. Dano\u2019s Eli Sunday, a nemesis of Day-Lewis\u2019s Daniel Plainview during his seminal, wealth-building years, has come to sell Plainview the oil-rich land that he once coveted. But Plainview doesn\u2019t need the land anymore, because\u2014as he explains in one of the most famous monologues in modern cinema\u2014he has sucked out all the oil hidden beneath it from an adjoining property, like a milkshake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desperate for money, Eli begs for a loan. Instead, Plainview chases him around a bowling alley and murders him with great enthusiasm. Once it\u2019s over, a butler comes to see what all the noise was about. \u201cI\u2019m finished,\u201d Plainview yells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter how many times I watch that movie, and I watch it a lot, I have never once taken those words to mean&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m done for<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>There will now be consequences for my actions<\/em>. Quite the opposite: They mean that Plainview has completed his journey, through the acquisition of wealth and power, to a realm outside the moral universe. He\u2019s finished, in other words, pretending that the rules of human society apply to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/05\/billionaire-consequence-free-reality\/686588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BILLIONAIRES AT JEFF BEZOS\u2019S PRIVATE RETREAT For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters. By\u00a0Noah Hawley At the end\u00a0of Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s 2007 movie,\u00a0There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano\u2019s preacher to death with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14180,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}