> In German there is a nice idiom for that kind of thought pattern: "Nach mir die Sintflut" Interestingly this is originally a French saying by Louis XV, Après

> In German there is a nice idiom for that kind of thought pattern: "Nach mir die Sintflut" Interestingly this is originally a French saying by Louis XV, Après moi, le déluge [0]. From wiki: > It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone, though it may also express a more literal forecasting of ruination. Its meaning is translated by Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care", and "Ruin, if you like, when we are dead and gone." It looks like the German translation of the same idiom was popularised by Marx [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_moi,_le_d%C3%A9luge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_moi,_le_d%C3%A9luge [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nach_uns_die_Sintflut https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nach_uns_die_Sintflut