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.
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.
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