Billionaires are not billionaires because they're smart. They are rich because they are broken in a way that allows them to completely ignore morality in order to gather more wealth in a doomed attempt to fill the unfillable hole inside them. (David Stack)
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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Some level of greed is normal in humans.

Excessive greed, especially when it damages others, is a mental illness.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    IMO it starts way before 1 billion too.

    Like what kind of moron do you have to be to have 250.000.000 in your bank account and wake up every morning thinking you need to get more?

    It truly is a mental illness, and for the no-empathy part, we have no treatment.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Starts before that even…there are way too many “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” out there who are absolutely wrecking potential class solidarity while the rich just take us all for everything we’re worth. Many of them are MAGA, which does help to explain both the mental illness and burned out empathy circuits.

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