Won’t somebody think of the rich?!

  • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    So on some level, sure, boo hoo, cry me a river, right?

    But wealth, serious wealth, orders of magnitude disproportionate wealth will fuck you up. It isolates you from the majority of people, makes you paranoid, makes you unable to reasonably judge your success… There’s a Some More News on this, with links to a lot of research, and at this point, I honestly feel like gently separating people from any amount of money over 999m USD at most and using part of it to pay for therapy and the rest to help the rest of humanity might be the kindest thing we could do for them.

    • PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Wow, sounds like anyone over a certain level of wealth should be institutionalized for their own protection and prevented from having influence over society and the economy.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yeah I’m somewhat sympathetic but also there’s precedent. Peter Kropotkin was a literal prince who gave it up and became a voice of anarchy and communism. One of the Haymarket widows was an heiress who gave it up to marry a condemned revolutionary.

      Stand as our equal and enjoy our community. You cannot be loved from a pedestal, whether you put yourself on it or we did.