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Is this too much to ask?
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I mean, if all the wealthy did this instead of their endless grind to own more and more at the expense of everyone else, the world would be a lot better.
The ultra wealthy have a hoarding mental illness. Most people would have stopped working long before they got to the point they did.
I've had this same thought. Like, if I ever had the opportunity to be as rich as Bezos or Musk, I don't think I'd make it because I would've stopped so much earlier.
At a certain point, I'd just think "Sweet, we're set for life, and I can spend all my time with my wife and kids." Why would I sacrifice that kind of life just to see numbers on my bank accounts go up in a way that no longer meaningfully affects us?
But think of how many people's lives you could ruin with that kind of power!
Plenty of people probably did, but the ones that don't are the ones that stand out, so they're the ones we know. Nobody cares about the guy who made a billion dollars and fucked off somewhere; even if they're still a blight on the country with that much wealth, we've got bigger fish to fry.
Like Tom from Myspace?
Tom is the exact model of how I want to see people get rich. He got his bag and then disappeared off the face of the planet. He's not in politics trying to enact a cyberpunk state. He's not in the news every day telling you that if you give your kids a measles shot you're performing the work of the devil. He's off on a beach somewhere taking photos because he loves it, not bothering a soul. Tom is an alright dude and I have no problems with him.
Hopefully they don't fund some evil shit
GOAT.
I'm sure there are a massive amount of rich people with this mindset. we just don't hear about it cause the few that keep on getting wealthy for the sake of power ruin it for everybody
There's a lot a billionaires and far more millionaires out there we don't ever hear about. I think you're probably right.
Basically the entire FIRE movement
Im poor asf and still retired. I'm living this life without the money part. I have zero need to fuck up other peoples lives just because i dont work.
Bezos, Musk, et al. feel that they have not yet received what the world owes them. And since that feeling is a form of psychosis, they never will.
Only thing owed them is a sharp and heavy piece of rapidly falling metal.
I live for the day I see Elon Musk’s arms and legs poking out from under an anvil, cartoon-style.
Does he drive one of his own cars?
Well, I assume he's chasing a roadrunner.
Looks like he frequently drives Tesla cars running experimental software.
🤞🤞🤞
Me too. Honestly, I’ve gotten to the point where I believe one is actually required to be sociopathic and all that comes with it in order to become that ultra wealthy. Capitalism essentially rewards these traits and concentrates them into the greed for power at the cost of all else that we see as a through line with these people.
People like us and most everyone else just aren’t wired that way, as ultimately we each have a limit to what and who we are willing to sacrifice for material means. We all have experienced greed to some degree within ourselves, but the difference is that it has a ‘bottom’ so to speak.
Because you have a mental disorder forcing you to do anything to feel important and validated as the genius you hope other people will see you as
They could also shut the fuck up for like five minutes but nope. We get the Met Gala instead. Rich people parading around on TV for poor people to watch. It’s insane how mentally deranged all of it is.
To be fair, there are rich people that don't make much noise but for obvious reasons you don't tend to hear much about those ones...
In San Francisco, it's generally considered gauche to flaunt wealth. It was funny to be treated as if I could actually afford some of the things in stores, but it beats the LA Pretty Woman attitude!
But what if there was more than being really, really, really good looking.
ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCINO!!!
If I was a man with influence, I'd petition to get "billionair" in the dsm.
I think they spell things correctly in the DSM
I'm sorry, did you not understand me? It's one those things you sit in while your hairdresser cuts your hair.
Probably a lot of the time, but mistakes do happen, apparently: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/saving-normal/201306/dsm-5-writing-mistakes-will-cause-great-confusion
Those don't look like spelling errors
The blog post is non-exhaustive and from over a decade ago. You're welcome to look at the errata and confirm they always spell everything correctly every time: https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/updates-to-dsm/updates-to-dsm-5-tr-criteria-text
Rich people don't relentlessly grind. They have people for that.
The ultra wealthy keep on that grind as they perpetually sustain generation after generation of failsons.
The difference between old money and new money is just how many generations back you go to the first/last grinder in the lineage.
Yeah, exactly. This lifestyle described requires a fair amount of wealth, and yet there are many people who have that kind of wealth and choose not to live that lifestyle.
Not sure what’s worse, then you have their nepo baby kids who never worked but now have all that money and can buy whatever companies they want and make whatever shitty business decisions they want.
We could have this if the systems in place didn't provide perverse incentives for sociopaths.
We only need the will to correct the systems, but the sociopaths now have the power of highly distributed propaganda.
Yes see, we ARE correcting the system, by forcing the 5 Pro trans athletes to not be athletes and bombing Iranian kids and locking up anyone Mexican and Mexican adjacent!
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