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Anonymous wrote:If you look back to the 20th century, the robber barons and industrial leaders were certainly not saints. But there seemed to be a compulsion to give back through philanthropy, and at least set an example of civilized behavior. We can think of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Library, etc.

Now our business leaders are sociopathic nut jobs. Musk, Bezos, Trump, Zuckerberg…. They give back nothing and seem to want to squash and devour the middle class. Only Bill Gates has developed a significant philanthropic effort.

Is this generational, or does extreme wealth now corrupt in a way that wasn’t possible before? I think Bezos is an interesting case. You can see video interviews with him from the early 1990’s and he’s a regular, pleasant guy. Now he thinks nothing of renting out and entire city and wrecking the lives of anyone who gets in his way.

Funny thing about Bezos:
All you Amazon addicted people here paid for his 50 million dollar extravaganza to host the globalists on their 90 private jets flying in.

Think about that this afternoon before you place today’s Amazon order. Bezos is a bastard sociopath because of you.

Amazon and Walmart have spent the last 2 decades canabalizing local business such that there are few options other than Amazon for a lot of goods. Bezos is a sociopath, and he's used his fortune to pay off sociopathic politicians to ensure no one protected us from his endless and merciless pursuit of profit.

Recall how Walmart provided the face shields for the last round of riots? Sheer evil. Both Amazon and Walmart are evil.

Perhaps it’s time to shift our priorities away from the hip-hop Mamdani / AOC celebrities towards the more ethically driven activists who stay laser-focused on truly making our country an even better place for our children and grandchildren.

Anyone screaming how they want to ‘fundamentally change America’ is a fundamental threat to our republic.

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Anonymous wrote:I am tangentially around some extremely wealthy people.
I can’t express to you how disappointing they are. They aren’t intellectuals. They are singularly gifted. They are good are making money. That’s it.
Also, you’ve never met a group more aggrieved than the extremely rich.
Honestly every time I hear someone say, “ we need a good business man to run the country”, ( and that’s become common “wisdom” now) I realize we are in a truly hopeless place as a nation.

But it was OK for Joe Biden to bail out banks when they defaulted, huh? Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and a third that I can't recall the name of. Or, was that one of his staffers and he didn't even know he bailed them out?

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Anonymous wrote:If you look back to the 20th century, the robber barons and industrial leaders were certainly not saints. But there seemed to be a compulsion to give back through philanthropy, and at least set an example of civilized behavior. We can think of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Library, etc.

Now our business leaders are sociopathic nut jobs. Musk, Bezos, Trump, Zuckerberg…. They give back nothing and seem to want to squash and devour the middle class. Only Bill Gates has developed a significant philanthropic effort.

Is this generational, or does extreme wealth now corrupt in a way that wasn’t possible before? I think Bezos is an interesting case. You can see video interviews with him from the early 1990’s and he’s a regular, pleasant guy. Now he thinks nothing of renting out and entire city and wrecking the lives of anyone who gets in his way.

Funny thing about Bezos:
All you Amazon addicted people here paid for his 50 million dollar extravaganza to host the globalists on their 90 private jets flying in.

Think about that this afternoon before you place today’s Amazon order. Bezos is a bastard sociopath because of you.

Amazon and Walmart have spent the last 2 decades canabalizing local business such that there are few options other than Amazon for a lot of goods. Bezos is a sociopath, and he's used his fortune to pay off sociopathic politicians to ensure no one protected us from his endless and merciless pursuit of profit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look back to the 20th century, the robber barons and industrial leaders were certainly not saints. But there seemed to be a compulsion to give back through philanthropy, and at least set an example of civilized behavior. We can think of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Library, etc.

Now our business leaders are sociopathic nut jobs. Musk, Bezos, Trump, Zuckerberg…. They give back nothing and seem to want to squash and devour the middle class. Only Bill Gates has developed a significant philanthropic effort.

Is this generational, or does extreme wealth now corrupt in a way that wasn’t possible before? I think Bezos is an interesting case. You can see video interviews with him from the early 1990’s and he’s a regular, pleasant guy. Now he thinks nothing of renting out and entire city and wrecking the lives of anyone who gets in his way.

Funny thing about Bezos:
All you Amazon addicted people here paid for his 50 million dollar extravaganza to host the globalists on their 90 private jets flying in.

Think about that this afternoon before you place today’s Amazon order. Bezos is a bastard sociopath because of you.

Anonymous wrote:If you look back to the 20th century, the robber barons and industrial leaders were certainly not saints. But there seemed to be a compulsion to give back through philanthropy, and at least set an example of civilized behavior. We can think of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Library, etc.

Now our business leaders are sociopathic nut jobs. Musk, Bezos, Trump, Zuckerberg…. They give back nothing and seem to want to squash and devour the middle class. Only Bill Gates has developed a significant philanthropic effort.

Is this generational, or does extreme wealth now corrupt in a way that wasn’t possible before? I think Bezos is an interesting case. You can see video interviews with him from the early 1990’s and he’s a regular, pleasant guy. Now he thinks nothing of renting out and entire city and wrecking the lives of anyone who gets in his way.

Anonymous wrote:If you look back to the 20th century, the robber barons and industrial leaders were certainly not saints. But there seemed to be a compulsion to give back through philanthropy, and at least set an example of civilized behavior. We can think of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Library, etc.

Now our business leaders are sociopathic nut jobs. Musk, Bezos, Trump, Zuckerberg…. They give back nothing and seem to want to squash and devour the middle class. Only Bill Gates has developed a significant philanthropic effort.

Is this generational, or does extreme wealth now corrupt in a way that wasn’t possible before? I think Bezos is an interesting case. You can see video interviews with him from the early 1990’s and he’s a regular, pleasant guy. Now he thinks nothing of renting out and entire city and wrecking the lives of anyone who gets in his way.

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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.

Yes, I think some of their charity was from fear of judgment after death.

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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.

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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.

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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 -

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.

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.