• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    They are sick in the head, and I’ve been talking about it a lot.

    These people have uncontrolled, unmedicated OCD that manifests as Financial Hoarding. They have more money than either they, or all of their descendants could ever spend, and yet they are driven to hoard more, even as it endangers the existence of the nation and economic system that made them so wealthy.

    If someone hoarded hundreds of cats, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, or empty bottles, etc., to the point where it is damaging the entire neighborhood, the authorities would step in, get them help, and clean up the mess.

    But with Financial Hoarders, society praises them as successful businesspeople, and encourages them to do more. Often, the government even gives them more money that they don’t need, even as it literally hurts every other citizen.

    We have to recalibrate how we view these people. They are not business leaders and role models, they are severely mentally ill people who are destroying America, and the World, with their narcissistic and wholly unrealistic demands. We do not have to indulge them, and in fact, we need to stop them immediately, and remove the wealth that is driving their mental illness.