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Honestly, I think that behavior starts to creep in at like $250k a year. It’s an amount that you start to have the ability to ignore or offload uncomfortable things. But there’s definitely a problem to begin with to even have the mindset to gain the billions of dollars in the first place.

I think various substances have played a role in much of what is going on and I hope I live long enough for it to come out.

Combining an upbringing in apartheid South Africa with multi-billions of dollars in the hands of a cabal of men has not turned out well. For any of us humans.

There are only around 3,000 billionaires on the planet. There are fewer than 200 individuals with a personal wealth of $10 billion or more. This is the easiest trolley problem ever devised.

Right? Like you worked on an app that sends money over the internet.....it's not exactly splitting the atom.

That's because the axe convinced the trees that it was one of them...because it's handle was made of wood. And our billionaires now are still eugenicists. Nothing's changed. The problem is unfettered capitalism. Until we all decide to change that system, this will keep happening.

I always think of Howard Hughes as being "patient zero". He was, in fact, a brilliant innovator (what these Chad's pretend to be). Ended his days naked in a Las Vegas hotel room with kleenex boxes on his feet, surrounded by "trusted" Mormons.

Because there’s a toxic culture that sees wealth as success, as well as confusing arrogance & aggression for competence & merit. Guess who has had many fingers in the pie, influencing culture, degrading education, and distorting media…

Unsure actually. I think he started out as someone who was racist, unpleasant, sure, but I think the absolute insanity is genuinely a recent thing.

Thats a horrifying realization

There was an amazing article in Worth magazine (a spin-off of Forbes) back in the late 90's about this exact topic. I lost my paper copy in a move, and have never been able to find it again. It was comprehensive & engaging, but even the BPL has no records of it, or of Worth itself. So frustrating!

Everyone with the smallest shred of human decency would not amass that much wealth & hoard it all to themselves. This is pathological greed. It is corrosive to all of society. It’s so damn obvious why aren’t we shouting this from the rooftops

I was about to say…

i could handle it though. i am pure of spirit

In some ways Cuban is the best example of this because he didn't always have a ton of money and isn't evil, but he'll periodically say or do something that indicates he no longer really knows what it's like to human anymore