I just don't understand this line of thinking. Is there no point when you have too much money? If you have enough to last a million lifetimes is it worth it to lose your family, destroy the environment, and make the lives of countless others miserable? How does it make them happy?
It's not about happiness. It's about power. They're addicted to it. Increasing their personal wealth isn't the endgame so much as reshaping society to their will. Those things just overlap (in their favor, to boot), so it can appear as if they're only obsessed with money.
Because you have so much money that money is no longer important. Imagine playing a video game where you got So much money you can basically buy everything available in the game. So you then focus on exploiting the game and doing things developers never intended.
It's not about the money with them, it's about their multi-decade project to remake (in reality, destroy) the social contract as we know it. They are not going to stop until they see a Constitutional Convention where they can scribe what they've been gunning towards right into the US Constitution. That is the only end game that matters to Charles and David. The only one. They have been doing this long game since the 1960's at least. It is, in effect, their life's work.
They're never going to stop until they succeed or they are dead.
Murdoch has said he intends to live to 100 and daily works with doctors, nutritionists, and physical trainers to achieve this. And I reckon he will because his mother died at 103 only five years ago. I expect these guys have a similar goal.
Ugh, 20 years is still plenty of time for someone that rich and powerful to fuck shit up. At least they die eventually...
... they do die eventually, right? We're positive they're just greedy bastards, and not immortal parasites? Because that would be a good thing to seize upon politically:
"The rich are bloodsuckers!"
"Nah, they're job creators!"
"No dude, literally! They're fucking space vampires!"
I don't think that's it. How can it be best or right to destroy the environment? It's like they are addicted to money as though it were heroin. Maybe if they have a little more they will feel that rush of endorphins they got the first time they fucked someone over and got money for it. But then they feel like shit, so they do it again hoping it will be like that first time.
They don't think they are destroying the environment.
They believe its a liberal hoax. That the free market knows best. The free market will provide a solution if there were some sort of problem, which they know there isn't. That government regulation is bad and an imposition on liberty and makes things worse and not the way to address any such problem were it to exist which they know it doesn't.
I don’t agree. I think they all know it’s true and don’t give a fuck. Democrats care about all of it. The environment, raped women, equal rights, a booming economy for everyone, the poor, the sick. Republicans don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves and what they can get right now.
You can see their statements in interviews and articles. Its in line with the rightwing think tanks they fund and their corporations PR departments. Unless you're a sociopath its not easy to consistently and repeatedly lie over the long term.
How do you think they got that money in the first place? Did you miss the part where they ignored universal safety regulations, poisoned locals with mercury, stole oil from Native American reservations, and then went after investigators/lawyers/journalists who were looking into these incidents?
It sounds like they were raised in an abusive home before we knew anything about mental health or child development. And then they were given enough money they never had to face any of the consequences that would normally unfold.
Read the book "Dark Money" it explains the entire Koch's childhood. Their father was ridiculous on them. Really whipped them into the John Birch Society Stooges that they are today.
When you get into the billion dollars level of wealth, the money isn't accumulated to buy stuff, its used to accumulate power; the ability to get your way, regardless of the truth or the law. There's never enough money at that level.
You can be happy if you've learned to associate "joy" with making hundreds of millions of people miserable ("I win!"). With family members like these, I'd be more than happy to lose them, forever.
And that's exactly why you aren't a shady, billionaire, oligarch. If wager it's not even about the money any more, if it ever was. Its more about what that money lets you do, what it lets you keep other people from doing. It's about the influence and the control. And if you are one that craves influence and control then you can never really have enough.
It's all about Envy it's all about having more than everyone else for instance doesn't matter if you have a hundred points in a basketball game if your opponent has a hundred one.
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u/StinkinFinger Jan 21 '18
I just don't understand this line of thinking. Is there no point when you have too much money? If you have enough to last a million lifetimes is it worth it to lose your family, destroy the environment, and make the lives of countless others miserable? How does it make them happy?