Purely here to point out that you stole this word for word from a tweet.

> leftist discourse

You jump to political labels awfully fast, based on a mere two sentences.

> pretending not to understand things

I'm not pretending anything. I also don't think I'm misunderstanding here.

> thus making discourse impossible.

You replied to me, so apparently discourse is possible.

Let me add to the discourse: I think our fundamental difference is that you view massive wealth accumulation as success, whereas I view it as failure.

It's reasonable for any person to want material goods, e.g., food, clothing, shelter, even entertainment, as well as some measure of security. However, at some point, a normal person is satisfied with their personal wealth. If you're never satisfied, always need more, more, more without limit, that's a psychological problem, and possibly a social problem too.

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

You have a strong emotional connection to the idea that rich people are rich because they're strong and wise. All the arguments you're making in this thread are post hoc justifications for this belief, which simply isn't supported by reality.