• ceenote@lemmy.world
    371·
    21 days ago

    He, and all the rest of them, could easily do a u-turn, be class-conscious and fair to the workers and all the hate would go away. They’d still be nowhere close to poor or struggling, just less rich. They just don’t want to.

    It’s like Zuck building a bunker in Hawaii that would, at best, buy him 2 or 3 years of relative comfort in the event of a societal collapse. All because he doesn’t want to moderate his society-corroding websites.

    • Norin@lemmy.world
      19·
      21 days ago

      I reckon there’s some tipping point of wealth/power/privilege that totally transforms a person, any person, into something fundamentally different at heart.

      Like, they won’t part with hundreds of lifetimes worth of cash because that would feel like self destruction. To them, they are their wealth. Nothing else remains. The accumulation isn’t pointing at anything other than accumulation.

      …. And that’s not a new idea. Fucking st. Basil raged about this in the 300’s.

      • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        19 days ago

        I think that extremes exist and go to both directions. I have known people who lost their mind when their wages tripled after they started working abroad (e.g. my father started having mistresses when his salary went from 800 euros to 2200 in today’s money). But I have also known millionaires who live very middle class lives, except they travel more and drive better cars.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    21 days ago

    There’s no way Michael Gusto wasn’t immediately banned from Twitter for that, right?

    (Yes, I refuse to call it “X”.)

  • Yewb@lemmy.world
    5·
    21 days ago

    Anyone else feel like this is a suicide note?

    Could you imagine having everything but not a single person that likes you for you, they all pretend to like you for that money… How could you know who is genuine?

    I would bet he has horrible depression.

    • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      I would bet he has horrible depression.

      He has limitless resources. The entire world and all its wonders are at his disposal, yet he spends every day arguing with strangers on the internet instead of capturing the joy that is so freely available to him. Of course he has horrible depression!

    • Akagigahara@lemmy.world
      2·
      21 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if he consumes copious amounts of stuff. Be it media, food, drugs and experiences just to feel something. If not full-blown depression, anhedonia must be crazy.