Why are modern day billionaires narcissistic sociopaths?

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Trump has lost billions while serving as America's President.

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Perhaps you should consult Shakespeare.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump has lost billions while serving as America's President.

Omg. Do you believe this???? He’s enriched himself using the Oval Office beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. The MOST corrupt president by miles and miles.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares what their motives are. What really matters is what will the rest of us do about it? We need to tax them until they become mere millionaires. No individual should have that much wealth/power because it is inherently a threat to all other life on earth.

You act like you have a right to other people's private property. You don't.

It's a global economy and money goes where it's treated well.

- back to your jealousy induced winefest -

Ha. Where do you think they got their money? Elon would have nothing but his inheritance if not for government money. That money is OURS.

Trump made his money running one con after another and threatening people who tried to hold him accountable. The man is built on fraud.

Have some self-respect, man. Quit fawning over these frauds.

That money is NOT yours.

Literally YES. Those are our tax dollars he uses to run his business. He literally has your money now.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you don't gather enough wealth to become a billionaire unless you are a narcissistic sociopath.

Normal people like you and I have a number after which we'd either relax and enjoy our wealth or if we especially enjoy the way we build that wealth, keep working but put the excess wealth into making the world a better place.

For some of us, that number is pretty low. Maybe just enough to buy a little cottage in the woods somewhere so they can read books and sip tea while never having to worry about working again. There are a lot of people practicing FIRE for exactly that reason who are perfectly content to stop working after a million or two. For others it's higher, maybe 10 or 20 million so they can enjoy more luxuries and travel.

Once you start getting higher than that is where the normal people start dropping out. By the time you get to the hundreds of millions and billions you have weeded out all the normal people and are only left with people who are so broken that there is no number at which they will stop. It's a sickness, a pathological obsession.

This is why billionaires should not exist. Simply by amassing that level of wealth you have proven to society that you're not fit to have it, because if you were you would have given it away or stopped hoarding already.

Honestly, I couldn't care less. I live my life. They live theirs. I do not sit around all day being jealous like half of DCUM.

Live your life and stop worrying about others.

Except billionaires “living their life” involves them buying the US government, wrecking labor unions and suppressing wages, and destroying the environment. So their actions directly affect my quality of life.

And buying access to politicians who make laws that favor their businesses, their personal values, and give them contracts.

Money is power and power corrupts. These people who think it’s jealousy have never read a non-fiction book or taken a history class. We are no longer “by the people and for the people.” We are “by the ultra rich, for the ultra rich”. I don’t know how to break it down more simply than that. I have zero desire to own three yachts.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares what their motives are. What really matters is what will the rest of us do about it? We need to tax them until they become mere millionaires. No individual should have that much wealth/power because it is inherently a threat to all other life on earth.

You act like you have a right to other people's private property. You don't.

It's a global economy and money goes where it's treated well.

- back to your jealousy induced winefest -

They didn't "earn" all that property without the hard work and sweat of other people. These people don't singularly generate all that wealth. They step all over the people that work for them to get there. F them. They owe society.

You are not owed anything.

huff puff blow my house in. SDASU. You add nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump has lost billions while serving as America's President.

Omg. Do you believe this???? He’s enriched himself using the Oval Office beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. The MOST corrupt president by miles and miles.

Exactly. He has made more money as the Grifter In Chief than he ever did in his so-called "real" businesses. He is a horrible businessman. He is an excellent con man.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you don't gather enough wealth to become a billionaire unless you are a narcissistic sociopath.

Normal people like you and I have a number after which we'd either relax and enjoy our wealth or if we especially enjoy the way we build that wealth, keep working but put the excess wealth into making the world a better place.

For some of us, that number is pretty low. Maybe just enough to buy a little cottage in the woods somewhere so they can read books and sip tea while never having to worry about working again. There are a lot of people practicing FIRE for exactly that reason who are perfectly content to stop working after a million or two. For others it's higher, maybe 10 or 20 million so they can enjoy more luxuries and travel.

Once you start getting higher than that is where the normal people start dropping out. By the time you get to the hundreds of millions and billions you have weeded out all the normal people and are only left with people who are so broken that there is no number at which they will stop. It's a sickness, a pathological obsession.

This is why billionaires should not exist. Simply by amassing that level of wealth you have proven to society that you're not fit to have it, because if you were you would have given it away or stopped hoarding already.

Honestly, I couldn't care less. I live my life. They live theirs. I do not sit around all day being jealous like half of DCUM.

Live your life and stop worrying about others.

I would not care if they would just live their life. My problem is they don't. They either go to Washington and dismantle the government. Or they invest obscene amounts of money developing technologies that destroy society and the environment.

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Look back at history. Carnegie, Mellon, rockerfeller, Morgan, Wells, Fargo, etc were all highly competitive; narcissistic self absorbed people.

It goes back through time. Edison’s General Electric lost Edison in the name because one tycoon backed him and one backed Tesla (Nikolai Tesla- where Musk took the name).

It has been that way for 200 years and going.

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They have always been obnoxious + selfish OP. We just know more about the current day robber barons.

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A very significant percentage of them are Zionist, meaning they are likely okay with genocide and racism and thus it shouldn't surprise you that they also would be sociopaths.

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Because the people let them get away with it. It’s our fault for not stopping them.

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Anonymous wrote:Look back at history. Carnegie, Mellon, rockerfeller, Morgan, Wells, Fargo, etc were all highly competitive; narcissistic self absorbed people.

It goes back through time. Edison’s General Electric lost Edison in the name because one tycoon backed him and one backed Tesla (Nikolai Tesla- where Musk took the name).

It has been that way for 200 years and going.

Tesla died broke in a hotel room.

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Tech is the primary reason. The industry doesn’t breed well rounded individuals.

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Anonymous wrote:Wealth hoarders have always been antisocial narcissists. There was previously more social pressure to "help the poor" in a paternalistic way, and philanthropy has always been a method they use to launder their public image and shield themselves from proper taxation. Nothing has really changed. Social media just gives us more access to these people and how they think and behave is more public.

I am a practicing Muslim and I don’t think this is true- people 100 years ago were practicing Christians and charity and social responsibility were very important social and religious values that were a part of the culture. I think these men operated out of a vestigial fear of damnation and social pressure to espouse Christian values. Many 21st century billionaires are not Christian at all- the trumps weren’t sent to Sunday school or exposed to the Gospels even as literature. the robber barons believed in Providence and knew they’d grow old and die & had the psalms and the beatitudes hammered into them by their parents. these techbros think they will live forever via technology & science and they idolize pagan warlords like Augustus Caesar & don’t believe in Jesus or God at all.