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[–] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Read a recent poll that said 63% of U.S. adults believe that extreme wealth is not a moral issue. Only 18% think it's morally wrong. Sad. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/appendix-detailed-tables-us-morality/

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    It's a mental health issue. They have OCD that manifests itself as financial hoarding.

    If they had a million cats, we wouldn't keep calling them great cat owners, and give them more cats until they had a billion cats. We would recognize that that many cats is bad for the community, remove the cats from their care, and get them help for their mental illness.

    So let's take away the money that is the focus of their OCD, and put them into mental hospitals until their brains are wired properly.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    holy shit. how much soft power do billionaires have??

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

    I think the common mistake is projecting our own thoughts onto a hypothetical. They try to put themselves in that situation, "if I had this much money I would do all these things" but the truth is that to be in that position there is a fundamental lack of humanity required and it's not easy to just disregard that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    When it's phrased as wealth inequality, things are usually a little different but yeah, a ton of that survey is depressing. I mean, gambling is lower than shit like pornography... (Although again, context could change that, too, I suppose.)

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