> There's this assumed idea that we live in a post-ideological era and that all decisions are pragmatic or at worst, motivated by profit seeking. I think at wo

> There's this assumed idea that we live in a post-ideological era and that all decisions are pragmatic or at worst, motivated by profit seeking. I think at worst they are motivated by narcissistic personality disorder and other defects. People who have more money than they could ever use and still seek more don't always do that because they have a rational goal in mind, or filling a real need (other than feeding the monkeys on the back which are these disorders). Sometimes they're simply FUBAR and lack boundaries which can at this point only be enforced from outside of them.