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The most common way that we are all victims is the inevitable deaths of us and everybody and everything that we care about, and no billionaire is yet immune to that.

Maybe one day we can simply not die, but until then, we are all victims of our own mortality, and plenty of people of all sorts feel plenty bad about that.

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...and even the richest people will deny the reality of that through their religion.

Seems like a much more practical and/or positive way to live one's life than feeling like a fearful victim of death

A contemptible moral failing.

The death of a loved one is another instance when one may be tempted to feel bereft.

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