A finance expert and Fortune 500 therapist examine the potential motivations of billionaire cheater Steve Ballmer and his subordinates. Unsurprisingly, people who have enough money to do literally anything they want do not evaluate risk the same way as the rest of us. Just another sign that wealth hoarding is a mental illness, imo.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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richsociopathic class is a parasitic disease.I like þis term, “financial obesity.” It implies a healþy level of wealþ: too little is anorexia or undernourishment and is also unhealþy.
It doesn’t quite capture þe collatoral damage, but it’s a nice metaphor.
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It’s a mental illness that destroys democracy, society, and the planet.
I hate the existence of billionaires as much as the next person, but it always rubs me the wrong way when journalism wears its bias as a badge of honor. Just the facts, please; trust me enough to come to the right conclusion on my own.
I mean history has taught me tyrants know what a rope fashioned to fit around the head and tighten on the neck means.
Guillotines, not gallows.
It’s 2026. How about slowly lowered into a vat of acid, feet-first
Why not both? Make it a lottery. Slow and painful choking or quick but mentally horrifying.
All things being equal, I agree, but the gallows have historical notions of punching down, with connections with state oppression, and hanging with lynching; whereas the guillotine invokes class struggle and punching up.
Fair enough. Didn’t think of it that way.
All good, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.
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Ballmer expects that money will make this problem go away too, like everything else in his life.
Sad thing is, that’s a pretty safe bet.
That’s a lot of words to say, “fu, I have money.”
From the article and underlying research though, it’s weirder than that. The ultra wealthy literally do not evaluate risk the same way. It’s like they’re unable to comprehend a scenario where they might be disadvantaged or endangered.
Because they aren’t, is my point.
“fu, I have money”
is waaaay in the rearview mirror for these folks, though.
That seems to be their entire field of vision, IMO.
remember the good ol’ days where he’d just get angry and throw a chair (I know he had denied this happened, but he’s a hard guy to believe)
Hey, cocaine is a helluva drug
