• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It’s a sign of mental illness. If I had $500 million I wouldn’t work another day in my life. You would never hear about me. I would go live somewhere quiet and have everything I could possibly want delivered to me.

    To have more wealth than you could possibly spend in the rest of your miserable life, and yet so desperately desire more that you’re willing to break any moral, ethical, or legal framework in your way and make political enemies in order to do so, is a sign of a deeply disturbed individual who not only should not be in charge of anything but should probably be kept away from the general public.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      23 hours ago

      If I had $500 million I wouldn’t work another day in my life. You would never hear about me. I would go live somewhere quiet and have everything I could possibly want delivered to me.

      That sounds like it might drive a person crazy too. I hope that after acquiring the financial freedom to choose what to do, I’d find the motivation and energy to choose to do some actually worthwhile things with other people, just staying alert to what needs doing. I agree about these guys being mentally unwell though. They’re stuck in a rut of greed for more money and power, and they lack the perspective, imagination or capacity to appreciate life that they’d need to change course.