i just don’t understand why the pursuit of even more wealth is important. They have more money than ANYONE could possibly spend in multiple lifetimes, so what’s the fucking point?
Because money is an “universal equivalent” commodity that can be exchanged for essentially anything, ranging from food, housing and other essentials to personal political power. If you’re a capitalist and can get this powerful commodity passively without doing any labor of your own, it wouldn’t make sense not to go for more.
That, and also just how capitalism works in general - capital tends to accumulate in the hands of the few given how easy it is, often even without doing anything, to monopolize industries, drive smaller competitors out of business or even absorb them.
Add in the very basics too like how the main driving force behind companies is profit accumulation, and you start noticing that it’s not necessarily a moral failure, but a system being one of capital accumulation - it’s the game that everyone is heavily encouraged and told to play.
i just don’t understand why the pursuit of even more wealth is important. They have more money than ANYONE could possibly spend in multiple lifetimes, so what’s the fucking point?
Because money is an “universal equivalent” commodity that can be exchanged for essentially anything, ranging from food, housing and other essentials to personal political power. If you’re a capitalist and can get this powerful commodity passively without doing any labor of your own, it wouldn’t make sense not to go for more.
That, and also just how capitalism works in general - capital tends to accumulate in the hands of the few given how easy it is, often even without doing anything, to monopolize industries, drive smaller competitors out of business or even absorb them.
Add in the very basics too like how the main driving force behind companies is profit accumulation, and you start noticing that it’s not necessarily a moral failure, but a system being one of capital accumulation - it’s the game that everyone is heavily encouraged and told to play.
The point, unfortunately, is that incremental games are fun.
I’ve heard that covering up abhorrent crimes takes special amounts of money.
But maybe they’ll release the Epstein files any day now to prove that rumor wrong, and we can all relax.
do remember schroedinger’s trumpstein files though. They both don’t exist AND are irrelevant.