▲ 941 ▼ Billionaires aren't okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes (www.salon.com) submitted 3 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 87 comments fedilink hide all child comments From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality
[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 69 points 3 years ago (1 child) And these are the kinds of people who become CEOs and Executives. They are not humanity's best, they are, quite honestly, humanity's worst. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago The upsetting thing is how many millions of people look up to them and try to emulate them just because they're billionaires. Doesn't matter what kind of absolutely disgusting, horrible human being the person in question is - "But he's a successful business man!!" is all it takes to convince many people that they should aspire to act in the exact same way. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 12 points 3 years ago The upsetting thing is how many millions of people look up to them and try to emulate them just because they're billionaires. Doesn't matter what kind of absolutely disgusting, horrible human being the person in question is - "But he's a successful business man!!" is all it takes to convince many people that they should aspire to act in the exact same way. permalink fedilink source parent