Hacker News Reader

Comment by callmeal | Hacker News Reader

There is more than enough research.

https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-...

But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "special" paper (or numbers in a bank account) are less mentally ill than people hoarding pieces of regular paper (or other things).

View on HN

If you're poor, you're crazy.

If you're rich, well, you're just eccentric.

Because you can pay your way, mainly.

You think billionaires are hoarders because the shares they own become worth a lot of money when they build successful companies?

It's like playing cookie clicker except the higher your number goes up the more social status you and power you have.

And like cookie clicker, once you're watching the number going up long term, it's hard for your mind to accept a point at which you have "enough".

Circular definition. Number go up = "successful".

A non-hoarding economy would look very different, be far more exciting and inventive, and wouldn't be staging an ecological suicide run.

>But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "special" paper (or numbers in a bank account) are less mentally ill than people hoarding pieces of regular paper (or other things).

Wut

We agreed that people have more or less power depending on this silly thing called "dollars", and because we agreed they have power, they have power. It's pretty weird how we did that even though them having so much power is massively detrimental to human civilization.

He's talking about money

Reply on news.ycombinator.com