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People are so naive to question the depths of human greed. It’s horrible and I wish it wasn’t the case but sadly it is.

They are dragons, always hoarding more and more treasure.

They also care a lot about having the most. Their idiot boats and houses keep getting bigger and their buildings taller because they want so badly to be *most*

Definitely the largest part of their greed. I would add that it's a side effect of wealth itself too. Once you get more than you need to be comfortable, it's never enough. Extreme wealth is a disease and should be treated as such. It's a disease of society and individual pathology.

The real answer is that capitalism forces the bourgeoisie to compete against each other for market share, and they have to chase profits more and more frantically because of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall over time. They already have immunity. The whole system was made for them.

Let us strip the billionaires of those assets, roll them in indictments, and fry them in a pan of accountability.

They want to have infinite money to operate on God Mode.

Yes, it's about the Power money provides, which is the same reason that they will never let us have essential basics like food, housing, and healthcare as publicly provided.

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It also warps our culture in a way that neuters morality, a necessary backstop to fascist escalations.

Money may not buy you happiness, but it does buy you options, no matter what you’ve done.

Power! It’s that simple. They all want to be kings with unlimited power.

As a longtime market investor, I realized years ago that after awhile the money no longer matters to them — it becomes a game. “Boy with the Most Toys” wins. 🙁

yeah, kind of the natural enemy of billionaires is the govt you can see the dynamic in russia or here where the billionaires have influence but the head of state has the actual hammer

Bit even when they have enough to guarantee absolute immunity, billionaires still want more. I think it’s more that they’re addicted to the accumulation of wealth as an end in itself, and an appetite that can never be satiated.

Working people see wealth as security to thrive. The rich see it as status.

They get immunity from the most bonkers things that any normal person would be in prison for.

They dont want to earn things, they want to take advantage of people and get away with it. That feels like winning to them. And so mamy people are like this who arent billionaires.

The flip side to the "corporations are people" mantra is that certain people have been allowed to amass levels of wealth that turn them into functional corporations. But the resources of these personal estates are marshaled to vanity projects and hedonism.

impunity?