Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days agoNo, actually, normal people can settle. That doesn’t mean they don’t treat themselves “once in a while” or sometimes crave something special, but they don’t need more more more all the time.
But there are some people who always want more. They never are satisfied, not even for a second. As soon as they get something they want they’re already bored with it and want the next best thing. It’s a hedonic treadmill that gets faster and faster, they’re never happy.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yeah of course we can override our desires, I never said anything to the contrary. The difference though is not the existence of the desire.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Normal people don’t desire more at all times. They’ll be happy for a while before setting their eyes on the next goal.
These hungry ghosts, though, never experience that period of contentment. That moment of happiness where they achieve what they want and can rest never comes, not even for a second. As soon as they get what they want they already want more.
It’s different.
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 days ago
We would disagree there then. In my opinion the only difference is the situation people are in not allowing them to get more. If you look at lottery winners, most of them manage to lose all the money relatively quickly.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Oh I’m not saying they’re like, a different species of human or anything. This is just what being rich does to people. It’s like you said, they never experience that period where they have to settle for less. They always get more, and so they always want more. It’s the way their brains have been trained to expect rewards. Someone like me, who is happy using older stuff and waiting for the prices to come down, has been trained to live this way. Someone like them, who always wants the best and most expensive, was also trained to live that way. They become hungry ghosts because of their lifestyles.
9bananas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
actually, i think you’re wrong about the ultra-rich being “essentially normal people”.
by all evidence they seem to have developed a serious mental disorder, a kind of trained sociopathy.
I’ve never seen it put in such clear nonchalant terms as in this interview .
give it a watch, it’s extremely interesting and really puts into perspective how…just utterly inhuman the minds of the ultra-rich really are…
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Normal people don’t buy lottery tickets. Hell, normal people can’t save money anymore.