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Sick to my stomach (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
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I was chatting with with my bro today. I asked "how do you just - do that heinous shit?" I remarked that I could never do what they did to those people if i got rich and powerful.

He's like "you sure? How do you know you wouldn't?"

And the more i think about it, I'm not so sure. Are we all just monsters forced to be good by the status quo? Are we brainwashed to be good? Is being evil the best way to live and we're all just suckers?

I honestly feel sick thinking about the implications.

How can good ever win? What the hell can we do?

Sorry for the cringy rant but I'm pretty broke up about it.

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[–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Getting rich is kinda self-selecting for evil people, and once a family is rich, they're typically raising their children to be evil to some extent.

That said, power both corrupts and reveals.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    As far as I can tell there are at least 4 ways of getting rich. Either you luck into with lottery/inheritance, you’re born in it, you’re ripping of other’s labour, or you’re paid by a large community to do important work.

    The ones that inherit it or leverage cheap labour to get ahead are the ones that are usually the ones we see.

    Money itself doesn’t corrupt, it is the power it buys that corrupts. Money is one of the currencies. Owning a secret stash of tapes of very powerful men cheating on their wives with children is another currency with a much higher exchange rate.

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