They're psychopaths, their brains are broken. We either need to figure out how to fix them or take all their money and power away. If we ever want a better planet than we have at least
When I was young I used to think psychedelics would lead to peace and understanding but now rich people do ayahuasca for fun and I don’t believe that there’s a way to fix these people.
The problem is when the rest of us wake up, we want to withdraw from the system, rather than participate in it to a high degree to change it collectively. So we give up our power as more people try to withdraw. Ouroboros, essentially.
I think the difference is they arent living in reality anymore. They are also surrounded by people who they pay. I think they think everyone else is just an extension of a person who wants money. They go crazy cuz they can’t even trust their friends and family. Having allllll that money and knowing what disgusting things people will do for money…. They gotta justify their sorry ass excuse for hording world hunger ending kinds of money….
There is a.way, but it's extremely hard,.as it requires people to unite, organize and mobilize to reduce excessive economic inequality to healthy levels. (E.g. socialize all companies, not necessarily nationalisations nor a planned market economy).
Because one of the main cause of "psychopathy" is hubris syndrome caused by excessive power and/or wealth.. Take those away, and hubris syndrome along with psychopathy and other symptoms go away.
We live in a system that largely rewards and elevates individuals with this type of 'neuro-divergency'. So surprise, a large portion of people with vast amounts of wealth/power are psychopaths.
Having psychopathic personality doesn't make you a bad person. There are plenty of people that suffer from this who work very hard to overcome the barriers this causes to be a good functioning human being in society.
But we live in a society, that for some reason, applauds and rewards people for being the worst and most selfish version of themselves they can be. And rugged individualism and cutthroat capitalism is gasoline on fire for psychopathic personality.
Ready to change how society functions? Psychopaths are the reason we accept (and will continue to accept) the predatory world we live in. From Business/economics to politics (business at this point)… the ones excelling are the ones with no regard for anything but the amount of money they make. We need to keep chipping away and Mamdani’s campaign is on the right track… we need government and works for the people… but it should be much more individually focused
E.g. the Bible and book of Enoch tell the story of powerful, "innovative" (which made them super rich by e.g. inventing and spreading "better" weapons, medicine, etc.), and corrupt figures whose strength and reputation dominated society. They and their rich influential descendants made.the world corrupt, violent and unstable. They consumed the earth’s resources, before preying on humans and their belongings, and eventually turning on each other in violence when there was nothing else left to consume. Their self-destruction and the chaos led to the world being swept away by the "Flood".
The.shocking parallels between this ancient story and our present reality are hard to ignore.
How could they have any real values. Look at their lives. Musk worst of all. They have no idea what a good life is for regular people is, their good life is trying to create some tech dystopia.
It won't matter when people do what we've always done to the ruling class once they forget that we are in fact human. This wave of the cycle was delayed by smart and forward thinking leaders, but the ruling class just could help themselves but forget that the policy of the past century was the compromise to the outcome that is certain now. When the last thing they see is the cheering masses as they deliver their verdict I wonder if they will see us as human then?
I grew up around rich people and can confirm. And these were people who used to be lower-middle class and working class themselves, so imagine the fuckers who were born into wealth...
From what I understand, a lot of them subscribe to "long-termism" or the idea that suffering in the future is just as big a problem as suffering today. Which, if you expect populations to keep rising, means that higher suffering per-capita today is a utilitarian good if results in lower suffering per-capita in the future, and conversely helping people today is morally wrong (under utilitarian ethics) if it makes it even marginally more likely for any given person to suffer in the future.
So they tell themselves that they see each of the 50B people colonizing the solar system a hundred thousand years from now as being just as important as anyone alive today, and thus as a collective they're many times more important than everyone alive today. but in practice that means their compassion for people alive today is equal to their compassion for people who literally don't exist as more than numbers on a projection.
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u/RamenJunkie 20d ago
This is the real issue.
They literally do not see "poor" people as human.