During the Gilded Age the robber barons at least knew enough to give back to society rather than face the pitchforks, but our broligarchs have all been fed a steady diet of self-determination/manifestation bullshit to the point where they think they're somehow immune from society's judgement.
oh you dont know this but page brin roblox guy lululemon guy all their charities are fronts for hiring the worst people in society to feel as if they are good actually cuz they are giving them bribes to do random crimes.
It's true. We have to save the billionaires by separating them from their money. It's hoarding. It's addiction. It's not good for them. They need to be placed under guardianship.
For the most part you have to be wealthy to be a U.S. congress person, but it's not universal.
There's some interesting accounts of people who got elected and were basically couch surfing so they could represent the people, that simultaneously prove why most are, and that a very few aren't.
Someone was telling me that a study has been done and that extreme wealth in the billions of dollars creates a mental condition that is pathological. Being ultra Rich is bad for your mental health.
Back in the PSX era of gaming, I used a Gameshark to make myself invincible and such. It's fun for a while, but the game becomes boring as fuck, because there's no point when you know you're gong to win. I suspect billionaires see LIFE that way.
Like you can do lots of therapy and spiritual/contemplative practice to grow into your best self, but step 1 is being able to be corrected without throwing a tantrum, being able to admit you were wrong.
Not basically, it is. We just don't talk about it in the same way we do mental illness in others because we are conditioned to believe pathological hoarding of money is something to be admired and desired.
It goes beyond hoarding. Accruing that much wealth requires one to exploit the people whose labor you subsist on. It means taking huge government subsidies and doing everything you can to avoid paying back into the system that enriched you. Their very existence is theft on a monumental scale.
Of course. It's about the exploitation required to accrue it and the power it gets you. "Hoarding" is just a catch-all term commonly used which I think most people understand the reference.
In the interest of science I recommend that we arrange for some horses to kick some billionaires in the head every day. Also, I have a few suggestions re: test subjects...
Sorry I have no sympathy for Billionaires. The cognitive impairment is of their own choosing. I've seen many a child survive a horrible existence only to become a loving person, so what's their excuse???
I feel sorry for his twenty(?) bodyguards, knowing they have to potentially give their lives to save his.
Same with the Secret Service for First Lady Donald - and you know very few (if any at all) are MAGA cultists because the Service training requires intellect.
Elon Musk also can't buy new skin. We all see how he looks like he is drug addicted and is about to open fire in the White House, and Trump would just call someone to replace the carpet.
Yeah you’re like - I’ll just buy all these countries while I’m at it, although 600 people died in my factory making electric cars…won’t have to follow regulations if I just own the country.
Bezos was still driving a Toyota Camry for years after Amazon took off.
And there was years between Amazon becoming successful and Bezos wealth really exploding.
In that time he went from quiet nerd to 'roided out Lex Luthor.
I would much rather keep my empathy than be the richest person in the world and lose your compassion for others. That’s what I told my son when he became a nurse. Always have empathy because when you lose that you are not a good nurse.
I see Baron trump as living one of the most pathetic life's that could be bestowed on someone with a golden spoon.. I got to cruise, date, and earn my own way through a life filled with all types of people.
Genuinely, they are removed fully from human suffering due to their incomprehensible wealth. In my opinion, that makes them incredibly deficient at caring about our suffering , literally what we all suffer from. So why should ANY of them be in charge of us when they don’t have any empathy for us!
This is 🔥. I never want to be a billionaire with so much important stuff to do that I still have time to take a chain saw to the regular folk, sawing off the feet of their IKEA chairs. Well, unless I can sell them back some other rickety shit for more money.
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His is ticking.
I'll never make it to a billion. Maybe I'm crazy but I give a shit about other people too much to ever hoard that much wealth.
Seems most of this lot only want to use their money to hoard more money, it's disgusting.
My entire life would be so different if #ODSPoverty was matched to the poverty line… instead of half that
Knowing that there are people in this world that can spend billions & not even notice it is even more enraging
There's some interesting accounts of people who got elected and were basically couch surfing so they could represent the people, that simultaneously prove why most are, and that a very few aren't.
To have so much money that you can buy anything, literally ANY... can only end in pathological behavior.
Three are worth over a Billion and 10+ are worth over 300 Million.
I mean, boats of almost ANY size are famously one of the biggest money sinks in society!
To have so much money that you buy a personal luxury cruise ship?
Absurd beyond measure.
What's the floating version of a guillotine???
It's that being born with money causes mushy brain, making reasonable spending nearly impossible.
one the most depressing things is how they escalated from hiring cool people to talk to us and subtle push their messages
to eventually making the message "rich people are actually really cool and desirable" and everyone now unironically believes this as if always so
this happened sometime around the creation of trump
or, alternatively the vibe is, elon WOULD BE cool if only he werent a right wing authoritarian and instead a left wing one.
vs "anyone that rich sucks and is sick and weird"
No need to apologize.
Same with the Secret Service for First Lady Donald - and you know very few (if any at all) are MAGA cultists because the Service training requires intellect.
With very, very rare exceptions, if you care about other people, if you can feel empathy, it’s going to be impossible for you to become a billionaire.
And there was years between Amazon becoming successful and Bezos wealth really exploding.
In that time he went from quiet nerd to 'roided out Lex Luthor.
When most of your wealth comes from data on servers, hundreds of millions can be made with less effort or infrastructure than ever before.
Lots of the silicon valley rich were just ahead of the game
And here’s the thing: a billionaire can lose 99.9% of their net worth and still be ridiculously rich.
Once someone becomes a billionaire, they become insane.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi602654489/