• iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    Of those people who want more money to afford a comfortable life, it is much more rare to be mentally ill enough to want to be a billionaire and that is what is being discussed here really.

    And on the topic of wanting more money to afford a comfortable life, that mostly exists also because achieving this comfortable and fear free life is made more harder by these billionaires who view services which should be basic social rights as sectors that they can squeeze money out of.

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      Wanting to be billionaire is not to be mentally ill. Who doesn’t like power without responsibility? Whatever moral framework you’ve got, most folk wouldn’t subscribe to when given option to be billionaire. Sorry, but that’s reality - power makes people drunk, and it’s only natural for us to want power - power to make our families and friends live better, to make people we despise grovel, to have all we want. It takes discipline and ideals to veer off into helping everyone.

      And I agree with the lofe being made harder being the reason, but it doesn’t really apply to original comment I replied to.

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        Oh I am %100 sure at least half the world will take the option to be a billionaire. But that to me just means that the Earth is in a mental health crisis.

        power makes people drunk

        Yes and then like some people do (and some people don’t) they get addicted to that substance which makes them drunk and addiction is a mental health problem and quite usually with some other underlying causes.

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        sociopaths and children is who. have you ever been in charge of something important? something that actually matters to a number of people? if it turns into a power trip you need to grow the fuck up. it should be a humbling experience, that many people are relying on you take care of them in one way or another.

        and to make people you don’t like ‘grovel’ is just maintaining a cycle of violence.