Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It’s absolutely mental illness!

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    As long as we keep treating wealth like a scoreboard, this will continue. If we collectively demonized people with unreasonable wealth, ostracized them from society, and stopped glorifying it and treating them like celebrities because of it, we might be in a better spot.

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      1 month ago

      I love seeing someone else get this.

      Money at this scale is just points in a game. It is entirely divorced from value to them, it’s just social status

      The worst part is, they’re not even happy either. Some people do enjoy playing capitalism… But the mental gymnastics you have to do to enjoy min-maxing your labor pool leaves you hollow as a person.

      Everyone you meet is hoping to leech off you, a peer you are competing against in the stupidest game, or someone who doesn’t care about money (and probably looks at you with disgust because your financial existence is literally destroying our species)

      The only happy billionaires are the ones no one hears about - the people who are generationally free of the game and have accepted their ticket out from the start

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      1 month ago

      Probably not. Since the point of money is to be able to buy more and better things, there will always be a desire to have more money, even if nobody else cares how much you have.

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        1 month ago

        There’s no real difference between $213 billion and $270 billion when it comes to buying power. Both are effectively unlimited. Both could buy small countries if they wanted to. But there sure is a difference when it comes to ego, because when we talk about it, we’re always treating it like a great thing to be the richest person in the world, instead of sociopathy.