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  • rah@hilariouschaos.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldWealth Hoarders
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    diminishing returns

    If there are any returns whatsoever, diminishing or otherwise, then that’s enough for humans to chase after it.

    unless you’re a really disgustingly ugly person both inside and out

    Indeed, humans are pretty ugly. Same with the rest of nature. Look around you. Would you say it’s ugly or beautiful when a gazelle is still alive watching a lion eat its insides. Or when a fly is immobilised as a spider wraps it in silk. Humans are no better. We are animals. The same forces are active inside us as in every creature. This is life on planet Earth.





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    This is nonsense. Wealth translates directly into attraction as a mate. More wealth means more attraction. There’s no point at which increasing wealth stops increasing attractiveness. This is true even for the person with the most wealth because increases in wealth still increase relative wealthiness, which is still an increase in attractiveness.

    Whoever thinks wealth accumulation is a mental illness doesn’t understand humans.


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    Being a billionaire (aka wealth hoarder) is a mental illness.

    No it isn’t.

    e.g. billions of tables, pokemon cards or toilet papers

    These aren’t directly related to sex appeal whereas money is.

    Edit: I mean I assume. Perhaps there are some people out there who see pokemon cards as a good measure of offspring-raising potential, I dunno. In which case, accumulating pokemon cards wouldn’t be considered a sign of mental illness either.

    they are supposed to be the smartest people in the world, and we should worship them

    Who told you that?





  • The people who are motivated by advancing technology, aren’t motivated to overcome corruption, incline equality, to replace economic systems, etc.

    That seems a bit presumptuous. Why do you think people who are motivated to advance technology aren’t motivated to overcome corruption, etc.?

    All you’d be doing is stifling innovation, improvement, a reason for hope in the future

    I disagree. I don’t see why focussing on feeding and housing people implies stifling innovation. And do you not see feeding and housing everyone to be an improvement and a reason for hope in the future?