AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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.

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.

Some level of greed is normal in humans.

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

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

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?

The systems they use also prevents feeling of empathy. They are far removed from the consequences so they never experienced them and doing so is so normalized in business that they are never made to feel guilt or shame. The system is as much responsible as any personal lack of empathy they have is.

Breaking the rules and getting away with it is how all of them become billionaires. It isn't work ethic or tryhardism. They knowingly gain advantage by betraying the community, then destroy the communities to empower themselves. They are an everpresent, ongoing and critical threat to any and all communities, including the concept of democracy itself.

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.

Also because their parents were rich.

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 what humanity needs to be saved from. 🫠

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

wealth corrupts and attracts the corrupt

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 three of them probably fucked children at some point

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.

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.

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