Whenever I see people say: "I don't get it, if I were <insert billionaire's name here>, I'd immediately ".

Anybody who is the kind of person who would spend their money to fix societal problems isn't going to wait until they're a billionaire to do it. They'll do it as soon as they think they have enough money to make a difference. That's what will prevent them from ever becoming a billionaire. It's a survivorship bias thing. Every billionaire you see is a person who could have fallen into the "trap" of helping other people with their absurd, vast wealth. But, they survived that temptation and instead kept accumulating wealth like a dragon in some fantasy story.

Some level of greed is normal in humans.

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

It's seriously a mental illness, a "rich mind virus" if you will, and we should design the rules of society accordingly.

Some of these people have an innate drive and even some skills that could contribute to society in a positive way. There should be a place for them just like any other disabled person. But that doesn't mean they should be able to run wild until they harm others.

We as a society need to get away from the tendency to categorize a person as good or bad based on one aspect of their life and generalizing that to everything else. Assuming that somebody is moral, ethical, honest, or a capable leader based on their net worth is definitely one of the more egregious examples right now.

However, the enabling condition is anti-trust laws not being enforced.

Also, our culture worships money, so they become "virtuous" in the eyes of others based on their wealth

Old time comic WC Fields was asked how to become wealthy.

He advised castration, followed by removal of taste buds, followed by making the person partially deaf and blind, so they couldn't appreciate music or art. Take out a kidney so they couldn't drink any liquor and they'd be the perfect money making machine, because that would be the only pleasure left.

They're narcissistic sociopaths.

That's the two word version of that.

Incapable of self-validating, also, adept at manipulating people and systems to get that validation, addicted to it.

Morality? Empathy?

Theoretical concepts for these people, their brains don't experience them they way others do. They can be skilled at pretending or performing them, but its fake, they're totally amoral.

Destiny/SexPestiny.

'Thor'/PirateSoftware.

Thats all these people, that's the personality.

Can't even turn off the compulsive lying, its instinctual.

They are that rich because monetary policy is frantically trying to force them to spend their money by dropping interest rates and doing QE; because the CPI excludes asset prices, substitutes goods for cheaper goods, and performs subjective deductions on goods to reduce their price in the basket even though they dont help the poor afford food and rent.

If the money supply grows at 7-8% and the stock market grows at 10% how can the poor possibly be made better off, when they are lucky to get a 2% cost of living adjustment and their minimum wage is actively being debased to push up stock values?

Also because their parents were rich.

Intentionally interpreting the analogy literally prompts the question: what should an individual do with the 'unfillable' hole?

I don't necessarily buy into this either i think power corrupts and that causes this appearance. Billionaires are just not special and got that way through a combination of things such as luck,actual smarts, inheritance, Racial and sex privilege and so on.

Many of them are adherents to the idea of effective altruism which suggests that it's completely fine to become rich by any means possible so that you can save humanity with your wealth afterwards.

One minor flaw in the "philosophy" that they haven't grasped is that their means of wealth accumulation is largely what humanity needs to be saved from. 🫠

The percentage of sociopaths involved with defining a society should never be greater than zero.

Financial obesity is 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 billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

I collect stacks of papers that reach the ceiling and leave me with limited room, I'm a hoarder and need mental health.

I collect large sums of wealth and money with no intention to use it and it affects me mentally just managing, successful at business.

The agreeable solution is to fill their hole with lead.

no, they are born with a silver spoon and have never actually worked a day in thier lives. plus all of them had been to epstein islands before too.

They have uncontrolled OCD that manifests as financial hoarding. If they were hoarding cats, or rusty old broken appliances, we'd get them help, and clean up their property. But Billionaires get lauded as wildly successful businesspeople, and are encouraged to abuse the financial system even more, and sometimes the government gives them lots more money, just for demanding it.

They won't give money to people who need it, but if you're a mentally ill pedophile, they'll give you as much as you demand.

Can we fill em with more holes? Asking for a friend

So plug all of their holes, got it

We so, so need to have just a hard limit on how much money/monetary goods one can own.

Spot on.

Dragons seem to have been created to represent these insatiable and very dangerous assholes... Minus all the wisdom and coolness.

Gee, would've been a shame if all that money from them was redistributed to the poor. Seriously!

Y'all act like these weren't at the right place at the right time. It's mostly luck and social circles that makes those people what they are.

The three of them probably fucked children at some point

Just read the book bro

I was just thinking this exact same topic coming home from the vet!

"I'm also morally broken but all I got was this t-shirt" -- communists probably

Billionaires are billionaires because of their personal net worth.

Eat the rich but the reasoning here isn't compelling. What's the evidence? Just a trust me bro?

But heck they're derivative! Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates share one very high functioning trait. They all work on the most derivative product that has everyone-with-money's attention.

Elon learnt it young grokking a shitty version of space invaders.

Gates was riffing on other common software solutions from a young age.

Bezos was ploughing all in on the online book seller experience.

They all took the world by milquetoast innovations.

Jobs was different.