We were talking about this yesterday at the Easter get-together. My husband is 73, and he’d rather die than still work or get into politics, lol. He just wants to chill.
they are sick in the head
It’s biblical, the love of money is the root of every evil. It’s easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Even if you don’t believe, it’s as clear now as it was 2000 years ago that money absolutely corrupts.
They think they are better. They think they have earned the right to rule over others. - Fucking psychopathic entitlement.
A severe underproduction and underutilization of guillotines.
That’s whats required to get rich, powerful, and old
Because no one wants to stop them. The few who can will make deals that benefit both of them and those who benefit from stopping them don’t have the power to do so nor can they get enough people to care enough to do anything.
The qualities that make a man rich are also the ones that make them insatiable and domineering. Glad you have one that didn’t foster those qualities
It is a mental health issue. They are hoarders, some hoard “valuable” trash, some others hoard actually valuable stuff. Either case, they never seem to have enough of whatever they hoard.
Just stopping by to add that it’s not just old men that behave that way. A lot of the Silicon powerful are actually relatively young. Money is a universal distorter of brains, the one ring to rule them all that actually ends up ruling you.
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Everyone is saying great ideas. I would like to add that as someone’s physical fitness and “beauty” declines rich people can use money to compensate. Whatever the myriad of things they want to fill in their life like to remain relevant, smiled at, and feel like they are in control and worth being respected. You can buy people to smile and serve you. You can find other sickos that respect your money power. Etc. just one aspect of already greedy foundations. Some people just can’t handle the idea of quietly hanging out in peace.
I think the term is hedonic adaptation or treadmill. Some people don’t feel satisfied with being content so they constantly seek more. Like a crack addict.
I think it was Theo who joked about it there not being enough end game content.
Theo Von?
Yeah but I might be remembering who said it.
Yes. I am in my 40s. I meet people making 500K a year, who tell me they are ‘financial struggling’ because they can’t afford to charter a jet.
They also have millions in the bank and think they are ‘average people who just worked hard’.
The truth is the vast majority of their money was inherited, but they don’t see it way. And they think anyone who didn’t inherent millions was ‘lazy’.
They don’t see anyone who has less money than them as human, they think we are like dogs or cats. They only respect people with similar money, and they only like people with more money because that’s who they wish they were.
Their refrain is always “if I could do it, anyone could”, as if to suggest that they just chose to be rich and it happened. Therefore, people who haven’t are “just lazy”.
I make pretty good money (not like THAT though) and I will say, you grow into your salary. Meaning, If I can buy the more expensive/quality version of something, I sometimes will. “Fuck it, I can afford it.” Then I’m shocked when people get by making much less. I understand that I’m relatively lucky. I wasn’t born into money but I know people who were and most of them are insufferable.
If I’d made 500k for a couple years I’d be happily retired at like 40. Buy a home for less than $1mm, then live off the interest and safe investments
Rich people are bad at money.
Sure, but have you stopped to consider that maybe you’re just not a greedy sociopath?
Rich people would rather kill themselves than live like that. They dont’ think the life of an average middle-class person is worth living. Then are often already ashamed of themselves at how ‘poor’ they are because they can’t afford to charter a jet.
Because nobody is stopping them.
Because they are all the same kind of people, and age doesn’t really matter in itself - most of the people at the top are just white and old men because the system was set up by those very people.
And that is precisely the problem: this system of endless greed propels ruthless psychopaths to the top. It is sold as a performance-based society, even though performance has absolutely nothing to do with it - if that were the case, the problem wouldn’t exist in the first place.
Hoarders: Financial edition - 10 things they do on their private islands will, number 7 will SHOCK YOU.
