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I will never understand billionaires. Imagine having literally everything you could ever desire at your fingertips. No one to oppose any of your decisions. The power to make yourself happy at no cost to anyone, whatsoever... and then using your vast fortune to make life miserable for people you've never met and who haven't done a damn thing to you... ever.
They're fucking dragons that need to be eradicated like knights in fantasy tales slay dragons on principle.
They get bored
At the cost of the working class that was used as canon fodder to help them become billionaires
I guess at that point, what else are you gonna do? After you sleep the rest of life off, i think they find it hard to be meaningful
That I can understand, but why use that power for evil while they could do so much good? It's not even as if they stand to gain anything by it. I suppose my thought patterns are simply wholly incompatible with theirs. If I somehow inherited a billion I would try to use that as a force of good, setting up new charities or pretty much whatever else. I suppose McKenzie Scott is an example of how it should be. There are others as well but they're definitely the exception to the rule.
Well obviously they're the good guys in their heads, 'saving humanity from the evil something's. That their wealth distorted their worldview doesn't even come to mind, and differing opinions are just misinformed.