Because the way you get and stay obscenely wealthy is twofold:
- Generational wealth
- Being ruthlessly unscrupulous
Edit: And if you acquire generational wealth, you were raised by ruthlessly unscrupulous people. This raises the likelihood that you are similar.
Why do the richest have to be the craziest?!?
Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, says that the present trend towards plutocracy occurs because the rich feel that their interests are shared by society:
You don’t do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn’t go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.
Everyone thinks they’re the hero.
Or at the worst thing theyre doing the same anyone else would in that situation.
Yup. Realizing everyone around you is their own protagonist is part of growing up and some people just never get there.
They got where they are because of narcissism and psychopathy. I think the bigger question is why does our society worship people with these types of mental illnesses?
Rich people can’t justify their lives of extreme privilege without rationalizing extreme deprivation as a justified and positive good.
Should be paints face orange and starts to dry hump daughter
Lot of this is their revenge for COVID. Office workers getting to work from home, factories and warehouse operations shut down. They hated that so much they decided to destroy every institution and relationships that enabled it
the magas will definitely get hit way harder proportionally…
When you are rich, you don’t have to answer to anybody. You can be your true insane self.
Because they can afford it.
If you grow your hair long but then can’t find a job, then you cut your hair. If you didn’t need money, you wouldn’t cut your hair. You couldn’t afford to be eccentric so you had to conform.
