Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?
Azzu@lemm.ee 3 days agoYeah of course we can override our desires, I never said anything to the contrary. The difference though is not the existence of the desire.
Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?
Azzu@lemm.ee 3 days agoYeah 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.
Azzu@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Then we agree. It just sounded like you somehow attributed more inherent evilness to them than everyone else.
9bananas@lemmy.world 2 days 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…
Azzu@lemm.ee 2 days ago
But yeah that’s the thing, even you call it “trained” sociopathy. I.e. everyone else could be trained into it as well. Of course that wouldn’t happen because people are different, we can’t predict everything yada yada. If you grow up with awareness about richness it’s more unlikely you make the same mistakes and so on.
But if you’re extremely poor and have a mindset of “oh I just have to work hard and then be rich eventually” and actually aspire to be rich, which a lot a lot of people do, then I think those will quickly become exactly the same as current rich people.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Normal people don’t buy lottery tickets. Hell, normal people can’t save money anymore.