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Left untreated, chronic affluenza can lead to serious social impairment, pedophilia, cannibalism, and a severe lack of consequences.

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe they can't be rehabilitated. Maybe they can. Idk. I'm not here to make that call. All I'm saying is that they make for very interesting case-study.

I don't think you can get to any level of extreme wealth without some amount of personality disorders. Is this what happened when those personality disorders are left untreated, or worse, enabled?

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