$2,000,000 : I can live a great life, and if I’m frugal don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to
$1,000,000,000 : I literally could not spend all this money on physical possessions if I tried, so the only thing left I can spend it on is owning and controlling other people
Bezos and Musk can both go to space in their very own rockets just to have a massive wank, and it still wouldn’t cost them the rounding error of their total wealth. It’s functionally impossible for them to spend the amount of money they have, and yet for some fucking reason they still want more. They’re sick in the head.
They are sick in the head, and I’ve been talking about it a lot.
These people have uncontrolled, unmedicated OCD that manifests as Financial Hoarding. They have more money than either they, or all of their descendants could ever spend, and yet they are driven to hoard more, even as it endangers the existence of the nation and economic system that made them so wealthy.
If someone hoarded hundreds of cats, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, or empty bottles, etc., to the point where it is damaging the entire neighborhood, the authorities would step in, get them help, and clean up the mess.
But with Financial Hoarders, society praises them as successful businesspeople, and encourages them to do more. Often, the government even gives them more money that they don’t need, even as it literally hurts every other citizen.
We have to recalibrate how we view these people. They are not business leaders and role models, they are severely mentally ill people who are destroying America, and the World, with their narcissistic and wholly unrealistic demands. We do not have to indulge them, and in fact, we need to stop them immediately, and remove the wealth that is driving their mental illness.
$2,000,000 : I can live a great life, and if I’m frugal don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to
$1,000,000,000 : I literally could not spend all this money on physical possessions if I tried, so the only thing left I can spend it on is owning and controlling other people
You forgot about rockets. They can always throw their money away on rockets.
Even then…
https://spaceinsider.tech/2023/08/16/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-rocket/
Bezos and Musk can both go to space in their very own rockets just to have a massive wank, and it still wouldn’t cost them the rounding error of their total wealth. It’s functionally impossible for them to spend the amount of money they have, and yet for some fucking reason they still want more. They’re sick in the head.
They are sick in the head, and I’ve been talking about it a lot.
These people have uncontrolled, unmedicated OCD that manifests as Financial Hoarding. They have more money than either they, or all of their descendants could ever spend, and yet they are driven to hoard more, even as it endangers the existence of the nation and economic system that made them so wealthy.
If someone hoarded hundreds of cats, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, or empty bottles, etc., to the point where it is damaging the entire neighborhood, the authorities would step in, get them help, and clean up the mess.
But with Financial Hoarders, society praises them as successful businesspeople, and encourages them to do more. Often, the government even gives them more money that they don’t need, even as it literally hurts every other citizen.
We have to recalibrate how we view these people. They are not business leaders and role models, they are severely mentally ill people who are destroying America, and the World, with their narcissistic and wholly unrealistic demands. We do not have to indulge them, and in fact, we need to stop them immediately, and remove the wealth that is driving their mental illness.