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Are Billionaires mentally ill / evil?

I mean, sure I know the thread title is a bit much, but at what point of accumulating wealth does it become OCD/hoarding/narcissism or flat out evil.

I would think at 250 million, or so, a normal human would begin to really start giving the rest away to make the world better. Certainly by 1 billion if you just wanted bragging rights.

With 250 million, you could live an opulent lifestyle and have money set up for all your kids and their descendants to be well off.

They say money corrupts so it makes you wonder about the mentality of the people who just can’t stop accumulating wealth after the first say 250 to 1000 million dollars. They almost have to be warped/OCD/hoarder types and / or massive narcissistic tendencies and / or simply evil.

Remember before you defend, many of these people are despots / oligarchs / dictators. Also remember before you defend these people in human history the last 6000 years billionaire predecessors were almost all most cruel emperors/kings and queens / barbarians hoarding their wealth from conquest and tax of the conquered / peasants.

Cliffs notes: Billionaires should be shunned and made unpopular because almost by definition they are not good people. Sadly, right now they are more often deified and borderline worshipped. A better trend would be to deify and worship the people who give their billions away.
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That’s your choice. If you have a chance to “exploit” your talent, ability, or experience in an organization where it might be superior to others vying for a promotion but decide not to …. Then you have opted to go in a different direction.
We are operating under very different definitions of the word exploit. I think you are using the top definition, I’m using the second.

exploit
2 of 2

verb

ex·ploit ik-ˈsplȯit ˈek-ˌsplȯit
exploited; exploiting; exploits
transitive verb
1
: to make productive use of : UTILIZE

exploiting your talents
exploit your opponent's weakness


2
: to make use of meanly or unfairly for own’s own advantage

exploiting migrant farm workers
 
I don’t feel a connection to a lot of people- rich or poor.
Are you saying that anyone who says Mills/Bills are allowed to be rich in a capitalist society is a clock punching f***?

I'm saying it's bizarre that largely through podcasts and social media blue collar workers have come to the conclusion that the silicone valley brain trust's vision of the future is in line with their own.

Musk, Theil, Vance and a few other billionaire tech bankers in Trump's circle of influence are tightly connected to the neoreactionary movement. New era techno- monarchy may be something you're good with, but I'm not.
 
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To continue to let anyone that wants to dismiss worries of exponential wealth consolidation and it's impact on our government and us as simple envy, that they're being lazy.

It's dismissive, dumb and not even close to pertinent.
to reduce influence of money in politics rules/laws that prohibit blatant profiting by politicians (revolving door career options for instance) would go a long way. something that simplistic might make a huge difference by improving the healthcare clusterfvck system. both parties will likely have to do their bit (by targeting areas they are free to operate upon) coz they are beholden to different billionaires
 
to reduce influence of money in politics rules/laws that prohibit blatant profiting by politicians (revolving door career options for instance) would go a long way. something that simplistic might make a huge difference by improving the healthcare clusterfvck system. both parties will likely have to do their bit (by targeting areas they are free to operate upon) coz they are beholden to different billionaires

It's my opinion that it will take a catastrophic event to get enough people on board with anything like that. The populace has chosen to believe that the government is their enemy while electing people that are dead set on removing any protections from outsized influence of money in politics.

More to the point, the horse is out of the barn.
 
I'm saying it's bizarre that largely through podcasts and social media blue collar workers have come to the conclusion that the silicone valley brain trust's vision of the future is in line with their own.

Musk, Theil, Vance and a few other billionaire tech bankers in Trump's circle of influence are tightly connected to the neoreactionary movement. New era techno- monarchy may be something you're good with, but I'm not.
I think that’s called differing viewpoints. I believe those are still legal.
 
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It's my opinion that it will take a catastrophic event to get enough people on board with anything like that. The populace has chosen to believe that the government is their enemy while electing people that are dead set on removing any protections from outsized influence of money in politics.

More to the point, the horse is out of the barn.
this is the time dems in particular should be strategic. for instance the dems are pissed at musk for funding the opposite side but hammering musk isn’t pragmatic currently. he contributed to the rep campaign, it’s irrational to expect rep politicians who are currently in majority to disempower him. but this would be the perfect time to focus on disempowering influence of say the health insurance corps who could be taken out with rep help. when dems do get into seat of power then go after musk with the strength in numbers in congress/senate. otherwise the politicians are only too happy to pretend like they are trying to win unwinnable skirmishes while profiting forever. what i wrote does sound simplistic in expecting to outwit politicians but i’ll let it be :)
 
And if those people were compelled to liquidate these assets they’d be taxed from here to next month. Imagine if one of these people were forced to sell millions of shares all at once. The effect of those shares hitting the market in one fell swoop would severely impact the price.
Since other folks also own shares it would affect their 401/IRA/Roth as well, and once again the little guy takes a hit.
Your main point in your previous post still remains - what is passed on is nobody's business. Anyone arguing otherwise believes that governments own us. It's pure wealth envy. Wealth isn't a zero sum game.
 
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