givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Your problem is you’re thinking of them as one united group cooperating for what is best for all of them long-term…
If billionaires could think like that, they wouldn’t be billionaires.
We need to start acknowledging that its mental illness to put wealth above everything else to the level of becoming a billionaire.
None of them are in their right minds, and they view everyone around them as competition. They’ll burn the whole planet down if it makes them think it’ll increase their net worth and move them up the list, if it it results in a lower quality of life for themselves, that’s not their motivation.
If they wanted a better life they’d retire and enjoy their hoarded wealth, but they literally can’t stop hoarding because it’s a mental illness.
they view everyone around them as competition
I agree with everything except that part.
They view their fellow billionaires as competition. But the rest of us, they view as a generic metric called labour. We’re not competition to them, we’re a resource that is to be used, managed and minimized in order to increase their own wealth.
Bruh…
they view everyone around them as competition
How often do you think billionaires interact with an average American who isn’t an employee?
Like. They probably don’t even interact with employees of companies, they have personal shoppers and assistants who actually as a buffer.
You think Warren Buffet or Elmo talk to random ass people at Starbucks?
Their never within arms reach of a normal.person.
We’re not labor to them, we’re not a resource, we’re an abject concept they literally just don’t think about. We don’t exist to them as individuals.
zout@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
Billionaires can only exist in a large group of people. I think if a chimpansee (or any other ape) would decide to hoard all the resources of his group for himself, the rest would gang up on him and beat him to either submission or death.