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A finance expert and Fortune 500 therapist examine the potential motivations of billionaire cheater Steve Ballmer and his subordinates. Unsurprisingly, people who have enough money to do literally anything they want do not evaluate risk the same way as the rest of us. Just another sign that wealth hoarding is a mental illness, imo.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 94 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago

The ~~rich~~ sociopathic class is a parasitic disease.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In this specific case though, he was always an insane narcissist egomaniac, his father may have been cocaine

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

his father may have been cocaine

Must be hard to get a job when he's a white powder.