• Slartibartfast@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    You’ve got to step back a little to understand.

    The key thing is that it is not possible (excluding inheritance) to become a billionaire without being a scheming psychopathic cut-throat selfish person and having a determined drive to have power over others.

    The second key is it’s not possible to keep your billions without being a psychopath. This because you could never possibly spend that money in your lifetime and the only way to have accumulated it is through exploitation of labour.

    So it’s a thing you don’t need that you got via abusing others. They want power and they don’t care how they get it. They have no plan beyond that. Personally I think it’s mental health issues and the fact that we allow this in our flawed system.

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      15 hours ago

      it’s not just allowed it’s encouraged, in fact i’d go as far as to say it’s the only way to “win” in this system

    • MooseyMoose@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It’s not wealth hoarding, it’s wealth OBSTRUCTION as a means to control everyone. It’s pathological fo sho.