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When people that wealthy are that delusional... With few checks or balances from politics, media, or even social media... I don't think humanity as a whole is i

• jimbokun 1y ago
  They are roughly as delusional as everyone else. There is an image human bias to convince yourself that what benefits you is also best for everyone else. It’s just that their biases have much more capacity to cause damage as their wealth gives them so much power.
  • mandmandam 1y ago
    Yes, people are generally delusional; importantly though, some people are much less so (and some more so). Being connected to reality, being grounded, are learnable traits (but not very valuable to CEOs and narcissists). > They are roughly as delusional as everyone else. I would bet serious money that people who believe in Ayn Rand are generally more delusional than others, and the same goes for the ultra-wealthy living in a bubble of sycophants. And their wealth gives them much more capacity - and motive - to cause damage.
  • drewbeck 1y ago
    I disagree with this. I think there's probably a baseline "capacity for delusion" we all share, but the very wealthy are insulated from the negative repercussions of their actions in a way everyday folks are not. They also hold so much power by virtue of their wealth that they end up surrounded by sycophants, creating the conditions for a level of self-belief that is deeply delusional, and that only the most narcissistic among the rest of us could ever dream of attaining.
• ArthurStacks 1y ago
  It got you the 20th century