• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Being a billionaire (aka wealth hoarder) is a mental illness.

    If they were hoarding anything else to this extent, going way beyond their rational needs, e.g. billions of tables, pokemon cards or toilet papers, everybody would know they are insane. But as it’s money, somehow they are supposed to be the smartest people in the world, and we should worship them.

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      21 days ago

      If there are 10 monkeys in a zoo and they give them 10 oranges a day as a treat and one of the monkeys would hoard 6 oranges every day and left them to rot. Do you think that the zookeepers would keep an eye on it because it’s clearly mentally ill or an asshole, or would they point at it and go: damn, that’s one cool and smart monkey.

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        21 days ago

        That’s just what monkeys do and if you give the weakest monkey an orange the strongest will go and kill them.

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          21 days ago

          Only if they are in captivity.

          In the wilderness they share their resources. The strongest would defend the weakest, especially if they had an orange.

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      21 days ago

      Being a billionaire (aka wealth hoarder) is a mental illness.

      No it isn’t.

      e.g. billions of tables, pokemon cards or toilet papers

      These aren’t directly related to sex appeal whereas money is.

      Edit: I mean I assume. Perhaps there are some people out there who see pokemon cards as a good measure of offspring-raising potential, I dunno. In which case, accumulating pokemon cards wouldn’t be considered a sign of mental illness either.

      they are supposed to be the smartest people in the world, and we should worship them

      Who told you that?

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      22 days ago

      As in, they’re power tripping? Absolutely. When you get a false sense of importance, especially when you have sycophants reinforcing this image, narcissists in particular tend to act poorly toward their fellow human beings.