Every hoarder I have ever seen - aside from those who hoard wealth, which is just unrestrained, parasitic greed - was actively suffering from or had in the past

Every hoarder I have ever seen - aside from those who hoard wealth, which is just unrestrained, parasitic greed - was actively suffering from or had in the past experienced significant suffering from a single societal ill: Severe economic inequality and lack of resources. This doesn’t mean that everyone who had experienced economic inequality and lack of resources became hoarders, only that this figured prominently in almost every hoarder I came across. They hoarded because they had so little that every item was treasured and kept “just in case”, regardless of how useless it actually was. TL;DR: Behind most hoarders you will find economic deprivation and limited-resources trauma of some kind, either current or historical.