"money corrupts" has been a truism since the invention of wealth
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The only way to rationalize having that much wealth is to believe you deserve it.
or our system works such that deranged individuals get to the top. Like me. There is an amount of money where Im sure I would stop trying to make any more. Once I had enough to live a comfortable life and could sustain it even if my money earned no interest relative to inflation until I was like 100. I would stop trying. Its kinda hard to fall into that exact amount so there should be some excess that I could use to help people.
This "paradise" could never exist because human psychology and social behavior tell us that some need to feel authority over others (and the benefits that come with that) and some need to feel someone has authority over them. Even among the rich they'd never be equals.
That's because people start treating you like a supreme being -- so they can siphon the wealth.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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