Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It’s absolutely mental illness!

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      41 minutes ago

      It’s more like narcissism, psychopathy, etc. The constant need to be better than others and worshipped for it.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      9 hours ago

      If we see a street lady collecting a hundred cats to horde, we call her crazy.

      When we see someone hording so much wealth that they could never reasonably ever spend all that money in a lifetime … we put them on the cover of a magazine.

      • teft@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        22
        ·
        edit-2
        9 hours ago

        spend all that money in a lifetime

        In thousands of lifetimes. 1,000,000 per year is a stupid amount of money to live on. If you “only” spent $1,000,000 a year you could live on 250billion for 250,000 years. That isn’t including any interest accrued.

        People constantly underestimate how large a billion actually is.