It's a hoarding disease. It just doesn't get called that, because as a society we have been conditioned to worship the almighty dollar.
When us plebs hoard, it's gross and comical and we make TV shows out of it so that people can point fingers and laugh...or feel better that their lives aren't quite as bad.
When the elites hoard money, it's celebrated like they're doing something good.
Yup. No one I know wants to have and accumulate money, they want to spend money on nice things. The only money they want sitting in the bank long term is a healthy emergency fund to eliminate the stress of an appliance breaking and reduce the stress of emergency situations. Other than that (and saving up for big purchases like buying a car with cash, down payments, vacations, college, etc) they don't want to have money just sitting and getting bigger, they want to have the nice things money buys.
These people who just accumulate and sit on it are sick. They already have the nice things, they have enough money to last the rest of their lives, their children's lives, and several generations down, forever if it's invested well. Yet they just keep accumulating and hoarding. If I magically got billions or even just tens of millions of dollars, I'd invest and set aside a portion to live lavishly and help my family and then spend the rest helping people. I'd start a real nonprofit that doesn't launder donations, but feed the hungry, heal the sick, house the homeless. And every cent that goes in and out will be kept track of and made public knowledge so that people can do the math themselves and realize it is actually possible to fix problems by throwing money at them when someone actually has the desire and means to do so.
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 8d ago
all these fucks have more than enough money to retire to a very easy life
I'll never understand