This is what's really crazy.

A long time ago, I was having a conversation with a workmate. Guy earned as much as me. I asked him what he'd buy with $1 billion that he couldn't buy with $50 million.

He couldn't name one actual experience/object that he'd need the extra money for.

Still insisted that he wanted the billion.

It's a fight for survival and they will CHOOSE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OVER A SMALL TAX.

No one is going to save us and no one is going to stop them. They need to go away NOW

He should be beaten to a pulp with a sign that reads "Don't be evil"

It’s power.

Not wealth.

He’d rather kids not get healthcare than be told he is a plebe that has to follow rules like the rest of us.

We need to bring back tar and feathers

Eat the Rich

You have to cut out such sickness.

Guillotine is the gracious choice to traitors.

If the billionaires are paying tk stop it, it's probably worthwhile.

It's not really about having more stuff. It's about having power relative to other human beings. It's the raw pleasure of dominating and subjugating others, of knowing you can bend others to your will. It's the sickness of the mind which draws to itself kings and oligarchs and plutocrats.

Persons like you and I are human; we want to uplift our peers and vice versa. We evolved to collaborate. But not all are like this. Some, by whatever mysterious circumstances there may be, become the opposite, addicted to the feeling of power and influence and control, even when it makes their lives objectively worse.

Unfortunately, there isn't in society the rebellious collective spirit there once was which would summon the energy to defeat them. I love modernity just as much as my neighbor, and to a degree, that's the problem. It is 2026, and I must apologize to Marx in saying that we have too much to lose besides our chains. I don't know how much of each other's suffering we must share until this calculus starts to tip away from inaction. Given that the reaction to impending geoclimate and political doom is, in societal terms, quaint, I'm not very expectant.

This type of k shape economy is what ends world Powers. Not just that but the sheer decay from the ground up of our economy. Cut education, less educated population. Out source jobs, people can’t afford to live and are now dependent on government assistance. The loss of the middle class, can keep going

Greed is not a sickness. It's a choice. The failure to hold greedy people accountable by any means necessary is also a choice. The real sickness is looking at the state of the world and not being radicalized enough to commit to that any means necessary to hold the greedy bastards accountable.

There are a few discussions and even some studies about the rapid effects of wealth and political power, because they change how other people interact with you, it essentially gaslights you into thinking you're less fallible than the rest of us.

We can kind of see it between the original Star Wars trilogy (when Lucas still had people able to critique him) and the prequel series (now that ILM was huge and he was ultra-wealthy).

Twenty-first century billionaires become two degrees of separation removed from commoners at all (except the help they hire themselves), and as Paul Krugman notes, lobbyists are better dressed and more well spoken than nerdy economists. It becomes very easy for a rich due to create a self-aggrandizing information silo, in which every rich-dude intuition and conspiracy theory is affirmed.

And the one thing that consistently feels good is seeing their assets and selves getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

So yeah, it really is an illness.

The dragon disease.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

These people are a danger to the world

He's wrong, greed isn't a sickness, it's a mental handicap. It inhibits the brain from experiencing empathy in people who amass great wealth and power.

It begs the question, why are we letting a bunch of evil, mentally handicapped people steer the course of humanity?

You'd think that if you were a doctor, and had a patient that was amassing a collection of any other thing, and that collection destroyed a part of their patients brain... You'd think the doctor (and society et. large) would want to limit the amount of that thing they were allowed to collect?

Especially if that thing they're collecting could be used to, oh I dunno, I'm just spit-balling here, give everyone universal healthcare, increase public education to include 4 year university, give everyone free childcare, invest massively in green energy and public transportation... you know, instead of just sitting in a Panamanian bank being hoarded by evil, mentally handicapped billionaires?

Billionitis

If you ask them, they need all that money to bring their future vision to life, they can't waste any of it on "petty wasteful spending" like on other people or something.

The thing is, I think some of them genuinely think the world will be better if they control it, but they're too stupid to make their vision work so it will of course fall apart and they'll die in their bunkers that they never thought they'd actually need to use because it was "just in case"

Billionaire is a disease.

"Sickness" brings to mind something you can catch or be afflicted with it.

Greed is a moral failing and should be persecuted as such, like they were a murderer.

the sin of avararice..

You think they're bad now? In five years, several will be trillionaires, and many more will be on the way. Once they get to Trillionaire Status, there is no stopping them. They'll create their own sovereign nation, create an army, and start to control the world.

They've already staked out their base of operations: Ivanka & Jared's new Albanian island, which is fortified with miles of bunkers, literally built to withstand a NATO attack. It also has the advantage of controlling a strait that is vital to all Eastern European trade. It's the perfect place for a scam(1) of Sociopathic Billionaires to make their HQ, and rule the world.

BTW, Ivanka was first introduced to the island while she was cruising on a Rothschilds yacht. La-di-da.

(1) Collective name of a group Sociopathic Oligarchs.

These people have OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. If someone had so many cats that it was negatively impacting the neighborhood, and they were STILL actively attracting and breeding MORE cats, making the neighborhood even worse, the authorities would step in, get treatment for the offender, and find new homes for all those cats.

That's what they should do with Sociopathic Oligarchs.

Land of the rich, home of the corrupt

Hoarding wasn't allowed at one time, in <150 person groups, then came the ever increasing wealth and power inequalities, and the supernatural stories to justify their power, justify the suffering now for later reward and easier than brute force. It's the same systems and people protecting their wealth and keep the majority in artificial scarcity, so they feel frazzled and not much time to ponder these truths, and decide how they want to go forward, keep the indoctrination of the systems or pull back the curtain?

From one ( i don't know ) #monney you have it is more like a 'high score' it seems to me. Like a child. I want to have the best score in this game = I want to have the highest monneypile.

bernie kinda misses the essence of american culture.

a bum on welfare is a freeloader because they take and take and contribute nothing.

what has this guy, sergey, actually contributed to america? we had 34830483048 search engines before google came around.

when your money makes money you contribute nothing other than offerings to the abstract concept of 'the economy.'

it's genuinely satanic when you really think about it. we're sacrificing real human lives to 'the economy.'