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Is it a mental illness if a billionaire many times over still wants more money ?
by foogazi 2y ago
Is it a mental illness if a billionaire many times over still wants more money ?
- adamredwoods 2y agoBillions of dollars is beyond human comprehension. We handle it better with 1,000 millions. But then the human mind thinks about things on a scale of millions of dollars being a minute amount.... which is not how the general populations thinks about personal expenditures.
- adamredwoods 2y agohttps://futurism.com/what-is-a-billion-2 https://futurism.com/what-is-a-billion-2
- jfengel 2y agoThe DSM definitions usually require some aspect of being made unhappy by your mental state. He seems pretty thrilled to be himself.
- lolinder 2y agoA disorder needs to interfere with regular functioning but does not need to make one unhappy. Someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder doesn't necessarily even recognize that they're causing havoc, much less feel bad about it.
- hinkley 2y agoNot if it’s narcissism or sociopathy.
- markeroon 2y agoIs that true of something like NPD also?
- moogly 2y agoSo why the ketamine?
- darth_avocado 2y agoMo money = mo power. When you have that much money, you’re just competing with others with similar amount of money as you. So the only way you can outdo others is by having more power (which can come to you if you have more money). It’s the billionaire equivalent of Florida retirement communities where people try to become the HOA presidents to exert more power.
- readthenotes1 2y agoBertrand Russell would apparently say "no, that's just being human" "All human activity is prompted by desire" --but read the rest, it's insightful even (especially) for today https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/lecture/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/le...
- ks2048 2y agoWe are all witnessing live via social media how ultra-wealth directly leads to mental illness.
- int_19h 2y agoI find it more likely that the cause and effect here are the other way around: people who are sociopaths tend to be more successful at becoming extremely wealthy and powerful.
- ks2048 2y agoI think there's some of that, but our current era - probably fueled by social media itself - seems to be producing something else entirely.