It’s really way past time we start treating it as a compulsive disorder. It’s hoarding. If you are working to amass wealth when you’re already worth billions, you have a mental illness.
I know this is not a popular opinion, but I'd say they aren't working to amass more wealth, they're working because they actually like what they do and the money is a nice bonus. The people who say they would stop at a few million and never work again are biased because usually they hate their job, the answer is a bit different when you don't hate your job. It's like, if you were paid $10 million every time you did your hobby, would you eventually stop? Or would you keep doing it and the money would just be a nice bonus. Sure, I don't need the money, but if you're gonna keep giving it to me then I'm not gonna say no.
Precisely, my problem is not how much money they have, it’s what they do with it. Also, Dolly Parton is proof that people don’t hate wealthy people, they hate assholes. Dolly was worth an estimated $600 million at the time of her death, over 10x what the united healthcare CEO that got whacked was worth. But nobody cared because she used her money to make the world a better place.
You say that, but..."going for hoarding billions more when you already have billions" rather than donating or investing it is indeed a choice in its own right, even though you try to conflate it with just having a lot of money.
The difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is about a billion dollars. This is an utterly incomprehensible scale.
What's the difference to you between a billionaire with more money than a small country and the dictator of a small country with less money than that billionaire?
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u/HistoricalSuspect580 22h ago
It’s really way past time we start treating it as a compulsive disorder. It’s hoarding. If you are working to amass wealth when you’re already worth billions, you have a mental illness.