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Elon musk can’t stop walking into rakes
Yet he still leads a life the absolute majority of people can even imagine. Not that most people would want such things as it’s grotesque to me that people would want more than they can use.
I guess I’m in the minority but I could not care less about money, sure it would be nice to have a more comfortable safety net, but anything above that is just useless.
I think we should value experiences and doing what you enjoy. After a certain point a bank balance is akin to a high score on a game, meaningless except to the person checking where they rank.
Feel the same dude. You may not be in the minority....
We just live in a culture that constantly tries to convince us that people's worth and dignity is tied to their bank accounts. If someone is a billionaire "they must the smartest and hardest working", if someone is homeless "they are lazy and don't even deserve to live".
I believe this is changing because now even average people can speak openly to the whole world and see what many others contribute, rather than only consuming what big media companies owned by wealthy executives push through mass media.
When you start to look at power structures all sorts of dark stuff falls out. This “culture of expectations for billionaires and the lazies” serves a particular group and it didn’t just happen to develop that way.
We have record profits but just not enough for raises. Now get back in the office and quit complaining about the not inflation definitely not happening everywhere anymore.