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> So desperate to be valued and liked, that he desperately grabs at anything and everything to get the acclaim Like all billionaires, he is an empty void that
by mapontosevenths 7mo ago
> So desperate to be valued and liked, that he desperately grabs at anything and everything to get the acclaim
Like all billionaires, he is an empty void that can never be filled. To borrow a phrase, he is a hungry ghost.
After his first million he needed more, then after a billion he saw that it was not enough, then after becoming president... he is, was, and always will be an empty hole of a person who can never feel satiated and who can consequently never feel genuine happiness.
He is not just a bad person, his is a bad soul.
- vrganj 7mo agoIt's time we take seriously the pathology behind billionaires. You can't become one as a person with basic empathy. To do so is a moral failing.
- mapontosevenths 7mo agoEarlier I said "all billionaires", and that wasn't fair. To be clear, there are some who turn Capitalism into a religion (objectivists, and the like), and to them it can be moral. They at least seek to serve a moral good, even if I disagree about the means I can appreciate that their goal is still to make the world a better place. Trump is not one though. He is utterly devoid of morality and seeks only to fill an endless black need for external validation.
- jrs235 7mo agoMost can't. I would say Warren Buffet was level headed, has empathy, and understood he was a steward of resources.