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Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve said for a long time that intelligence isn’t the number one trait for becoming filthy rich. It’s lack of a moral compass.
Comment on I Quit
Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve said for a long time that intelligence isn’t the number one trait for becoming filthy rich. It’s lack of a moral compass.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
i think the lack of moral compass is just an enabler, what actually causes someone to amass such obscene wealth is wanting that much money. An even remotely normal person outright has no actual desire for it, they’d reach a level of wealth that will comfortably support the lifestyle they desire and just live off of that.
These turborich shits have some reason to desire the obscene wealth, either they simply have no actual end to the luxuries they desire or they feel that wealth is straight up equal to value as a person, or somesuch.
Just imagine having a billion dollars, a thousand million dollars. Why the fuck would you keep putting in any sort of work to get more money? Investing a tenth of it would give you a constant income that most people can’t even dream of.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I agree. I always thought if I could ask a billionaire one questions it would be, “How much is enough?” Then I realized, I know the answer to that question. There’s never enough. What a real shame. They could live so extravagantly and still do so much good with the rest, but they would rather spend it crushing people and looking down on them for some ridiculous notion that they’re world builders or something.
Bezos said in an interview that he had so much money the only thing he could really spend it on was space travel. I’m like, how about paying your employees a living wage and letting them use the toilet you asshat!