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.
This probably has been said but I want to chip in regardless.
People like this do not usually have a concrete goal, rather they are the ones who are acting in a shitty way just enough so the system rewards it, not enough to punish it. They have a fuzzy compulsion to seek more at any cost, when the current existence becomes slightly mundane they go for the next taboo thrill, the next bribe. They don’t have a stable existence and must consume forever, like a cancer.
Because their penises don’t work anymore and no one ever actually loved them enough to want to touch it without being paid up-front in the first place.
Greed is a kind of disease.
Because they’re the people who’ve spent their entire lives refusing to accept satiation. It’s no different from asking why people who weigh 400 lbs are so hungry all the time, after all surely they have more than enough fat reserves to see them through all but the most apocalyptic famines. But no, you don’t weigh that much without having completely destroyed your sense of satiation, and to maintain your current state you need to continue overconsuming. Furthermore to begin to scale back even a little is uncomfortable.
Because there is a hole in their soul that can never be filled. They keep trying to fill it with money and power but they can never have enough.
Demon-like Clives latch onto individuals with power and influence, and corrupt them with fear, paranoia and desire. The Clives derive a sense of entertainment and sustenance from both the welding of, and the misery caused by their influence
Small balls
I worked on Capitol Hill and it literally is a sickness/addiction. And it’s not just the members, the intoxicating effect impacts staffers, too. It’s kind of like religion. It’s really hard to get people out of it once they’ve started. It’s suddenly the only reason you feel valuable. People turn to look when you walk in the room. All that bullshit.
So they’ve not changed since high school then.
It’s a lot of people who were unpopular in high school finally “getting theirs.” It really is “Hollywood for ugly people.”
I’ve heard similar as well that it’s also like a nursing home as well because the average age is well into that age group.
Oh wow that’s so… basic.
Its not old men in general, its just old men you see on the news.
Yeah most people irl and just generally are chill
It’s a mental illness, most likely psychopathy, as the traits of psychopathy are required in order to attain that much power
People with that much money are surrounded by yes men and other people with that much money. None from outside their circles reaches them. As a result, they live in an echo chamber where all they do is for the best of anything they care about. It’s not, but no one will tell them otherwise. Even worse, even and if an outsider reaches them to denounce their wrongs, the echo chamber will find ways to blame the outsider and defend the rich and powerful.
TLDR: The segregation of population by earth, with people so rich that the money is incomprehensible is the problem. The current cast of rich people are just the latest group to do the same as the previous oligarchs.
It has always struck me as being the same impulse that makes hoarders do what they do. It’s just that, because the rich are hoarding wealth, which everyone sees as a desirable thing to hoard, they’re not treated like the fiending addict freaks that they are. I think it’s simply their warped personalities, rather than some Machiavellian master plan.
Yeah even at a more working class level, because of the lack of social safety net, healthcare, guaranteed pension - you can never know how much money you’ll need to be safe, so you just keep grinding and trying to save.
But you’ve got the real sickos I guess who wouldn’t be content just being safe. They want enough power to enact their will on others and insulate them from other power seeking ghouls.
That’s one way to figure it, anyway,
how do you think they got rich in the first place?
My guess is they have no one telling them “no.” I’ve yet to find someone who didn’t go more than a little crazy in that kind of environment. I suppose being a billionaire tends to induce occupational psychosis.
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.
