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I don't understand the greed of these people. Once you have health care, education, a nice house, a nice car and you can afford to go on holiday, what else do y

• archsurface 5y ago
  Aspiring to be monarchy, which condones "sacred people" above all others.
• amelius 5y ago
  Building a huge render farm would come to my mind, but I'm not a billionaire.
• IanSanders 5y ago
  Gamification maybe? "Status" among (similar) peers? Disconnect from reality and living in a bubble? (which most of us do, in different ways to a different extent)
• Leherenn 5y ago
  It's probably not the incentive for most billionaires, but there are stuffs that legitimately cost billions. Creating your own space company, wanting to invest in research like nuclear fusion or vaccines, owning a sport team, influencing politics, ... It's certainly arguable whether this is good or not, but I can see the appeal for a rich football fan to buy his own team and the best players and play fantasy football, but in real life. I am sure a lot of people here, if given billions, would try to tackle their own pet issue. Having billions available makes having a noticeable impact on the world much easier, if that's what you want to do, you need billions. > What is the point of having 10 super cars or a 100 room mansion? What's the point of having 10 pairs of shoes? You could say that some are better in some specific circumstances, but you probably don't really need all of them. How many people here have a 64-core CPU that is almost never fully used? Or people that have an offroad vehicle that will never see dirt? Your examples are the same behaviour, just at a different scale.