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whats so great about hoarding wealth? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Billions of dollars isn’t useful. They can’t possibly spend all their money in their lifetime even buying megayachts and shit.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    Completely flawed logic.

    Just because you can't spent all in your lifetime doesn't mean it's useless in your lifetime.

    They spent the money to shape the world in their image. They don't have to stress about food or shelter, and so on and so on.

    How is that not useful?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    Because they could do that as millionaires. The hoarding comes from the excess.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Flawed logic again.

    Just because they could do it als millionaire doesn't make it not useful as billionaire.

    Quite the opposite, as more money means more power. And more power is more useful.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Useful for who? Isn't it a well known heuristic that more money/power doesnt always improve your own quality of life?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Look, billionaires are hoarders. Just because money is useful doesn’t make them not hoarders.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I agree.

    But when the question is "what is so good about hoarding wealth?" and then it goes on to equal that to hoarding newspapers, the answer is "because you can do a lot more with money than with newspapers".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    Nobody asked that question.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    It is literally the title of the post.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    The title is rhetorical.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Must be, otherwise you would just say what ever it takes to save face.

    And even if, the question was still asked. So your "nobody" isn't true.

    But you confirmed more then once that talking with you is a waste of time.

    For the future. Just because someone states an observable fact, doesn't meant that the person thinks it is good that it is that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you were trying to answer the rhetorical title then fine. But a) it really didn’t come off that way and b) you’re still wrong because the observable fact is that over a certain amount money is useless and they are hoarding it.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A) is your opinion stated as a fact

    B) you say that in a world where a billionaire wasted billions and is still one of the most powerful people that exist. More money means more margin for error.

    That's why people like you will be the ones who will suffer the most from all of this, you straight up don't understand how the world works. And if confronted with that you flee into a fantasy.

    Were are done here.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Nothing I had said is an opinion. Hoarding is a documented mental illness.

    Yes because more money doesn’t necessarily mean more power. I assume you are talking about Musk and I am glad you brought him up because more money literally wouldn’t make him more powerful. Him being a ‘trillionaire’ didn’t change anything about what he is capable of. The only way for him to become more powerful would be to stage a coup.

    No we aren’t. But you don’t have to keep replying if you don’t want to.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Omg thats exactly what is horrendous. How can society exist peacefully if its always contorting itself to some hoarders will?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe if the hoarder with the most money wants a peaceful society otherwise it most definitely can't.

    But the older I get the more I think a peaceful society isn't possible at all. People are just to different and everybody wants others to understand them while not being willing to understand someone else.

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