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All of that ignores this is happening intentionally
I have a very hard time believing that the super wealthy are some mega conspiracy masterminds, and not just some greedy morons who self-destructive because they can't see past next quarter's profits.
The most rational explanation I have heard is that they are just well dressed hoarders. Acquiring more wealthy is an attempt to smother the bad feelings with the pleasure of "success". But the pleasure of success is fleeting and the goal posts move every time. So they keep chasing "success" and hoarding wealth to make the bad feelings go away. But that will never heal their emotional issues, so they will never stop.
They’re actually quite poorly dressed considering how much time and money they have
I was meaning in comparison to normal expectations of a hoarder.
Oh, it’s absolutely a pretty severe mental illness. The fact that we raise these very damaged people up on a pedestal and celebrate them doesn’t speak very well of our society.
"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to see what is wrong with it. When humans exhibit this same behavior, we put them on the cover of Forbes magazine."
There's a lie they told me: you want the rich people to stay in your country, and that's why we make accommodations for them with reduced taxes and free money. In fact it's the opposite: tax the hell out of them and redistribute their bananas.
Yes, but we are at a point where we need to confiscate all wealth over 100million
I recently tend to think they are actually at their wits' end.
A few of them might be, but politics are like fines--inconsequential to the super rich. The disgustingly wealthy can just bail when things get bad. And if sabotaging an entire nation gets them more money in the next quarter, they'll do it.
It’s not a mystery at all. It’s dark enlightenment that they proudly espouse whenever they can. Destroy the state and have a bunch of tech bro kings with little kingdoms.
The entire prose of their belief is wrong.
Fascism and capitalism are like peas in a pod.
I mean, the US can do whatever it wants to itself, people voted for this anyway. Just don't drag the rest of the world down as well, please.
Fewer than 1 in 4 American adults voted for this
They have nukes and military bases everywhere, it'll affect everyone, there's no way the mess stays contained within the US.
Phase 2 - annexation of other countries, or parts thereof - is yet to start. Surely that would serve to quieten the home front, not to mention to make the rich even richer, by an awful lot. Hell, we'll get to see the world's first trillionaire for sure.
Mental gymnastics to avoid the obvious, its baffling
If they just saved their brainpower for improving things instead of trying to reconcile their broken world views, we’d have fixed these problems by now.
Contrarianism is one of the biggest sins of the Republican party.
Is it really gymnastics to see incompetence as a more likely explanation than malice?