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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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. [b] I think these men operated out of a vestigial fear of damnation and social pressure to espouse Christian values[/b]. 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. [/quote]

Yes, I think some of their charity was from fear of judgment after death.[/quote]
I think it's a little more complicated than that, but I agree religion played a role. There is at least some sense in Abrahamic religions that being too wealthy is bad/sinful. In the US, we've now idolized people who get rich via business and equated it with virtue.

Still, the tech community in particular is overtaken by some insane philosophies around the future of tech/AI and humanity. If you watch the HBO movie "Mountainhead", they make a lot of references to it (doomer vs zoomer, singularity, p(doom) etc). It's really out there stuff, and these people control much of the wealth and power in our country.[/quote]

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