I often hear people complain that billionaires could never actually use all their wealth. The hoarding of the wealth for their “use” was never the point though.
Its all a game of power, influence, and leverage over other people. If you have more money than someone else, you get the ability to bully them. So for a billionaire, you want more money than the other billionaires. You also want to deprive poor and middle class people of wealth so they have even less leverage and are more desperate than they would be if you simply had a lot of money, and not all of the money.
You can get a starving homeless person to do a lot more for you with an offer of cheap gruel than you can a contented peasant with a solid gold bar.
The awesome thing about it is that it saves so much money, eliminates a lot of sources of stress, frees time and energy. You could cut back on work hours or retire earlier too!
Honestly think we should be pushing more for a 4 hour work week too.
I often hear people complain that billionaires could never actually use all their wealth. The hoarding of the wealth for their “use” was never the point though.
Its all a game of power, influence, and leverage over other people. If you have more money than someone else, you get the ability to bully them. So for a billionaire, you want more money than the other billionaires. You also want to deprive poor and middle class people of wealth so they have even less leverage and are more desperate than they would be if you simply had a lot of money, and not all of the money.
You can get a starving homeless person to do a lot more for you with an offer of cheap gruel than you can a contented peasant with a solid gold bar.
Huh, am I the contented peasant, largely by refusing to accept the bullshit of consumerism?
It seems like I really dont need much money to be happy
Very few people realize how much we can impact the system if we all just rejected most things it offers us and lived the simplest life we could
The awesome thing about it is that it saves so much money, eliminates a lot of sources of stress, frees time and energy. You could cut back on work hours or retire earlier too!
Honestly think we should be pushing more for a 4 hour work week too.