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[–] snekerpimp 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Should classify people who hoard wealth mentally unstable. What’s the difference between hoarding fake little pieces of green paper and shoes? Evidently hoarding shoes won’t make you a powerful demigod.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There’s very little actual paper. It’s just numbers on a computer screen. They’re hoarding numbers made of light. Resulting in the rest of us getting screwed.

[–] Orbituary 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's very little light. They're hoarding bits of electromagnetic patterns on silicon wafers and platters shoved into noisy boxes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One day, I’m going to dive and swim in a giant vault filled with my own hoard of electromagnetic bits. Then people like me better watch their step!

[–] hakunawazo 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The chances of becoming that rich:

Mission: Impossible indeed. XD

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Its a high score video game for them.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 11 months ago

They're hoarding IOU claims on resources.

That's why it's a problem for everybody else.

It they were just meaningless numbers with no real link back to things which are scarce, it would be absolutelly fine (unhealthy for them but fine for everybody else).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No, we really shouldn't, not everything you don't like is a "mental illness" and using it in this way just makes light of real mental illness and deepens the existing stigma against those who actually have it.

Being a selfish and privileged fuck is not a mental illness, it is the product of a system deliberately designed to enable their existence and behaviour.

[–] snekerpimp 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think being selfish is a fucking mental illness, it hurts the person and society in the long run.

This is not meant in jest, and it’s not just because I don’t like it, there is really something wrong with someone who could buy the world multiple times over and still feel like they need more money. They are mentally unstable to want all of something. You don’t need all of something.

So again, what is the difference between someone who needs all the bottle caps in the world and someone who needs all the money?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly. If we were researching monkeys and one of those monkeys was inexplicably obsessed with hoarding all the bananas away from everyone else, even through violence, even though the pile of bananas obtained could dwarf the Pyramids of Giza, and they were all going bad anyway, while the other monkeys starved...

We'd say there's something very, very wrong with that monkey.

But it wouldn't get that far, because the rest of the troupe would exile that one or beat them to death to preserve the rest of the community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

it's crazy how obsessed the american founding fathers were with protecting private property, as if it was the end-all, be-all value of the time.