That’s actually all… I’ll leave it up to you to speculate on the cure…
Lead therapy.
But not if you have $999,999,999
Buzzwords are for idiots.
I believe that becoming a billionaire is often the result of an OCD condition related to hoarding. If someone was that strongly compelled to hoard an equivalent amount of cats, rusty cars, broken appliances, etc., we would step in and stop it, because it would start to be a danger to the health of the public.
Yet if their OCD Hoarding manifests as financial, we laud them as economic heroes, and governments actually GIVE them more money.
Their hoards should be confiscated, and they should have to take medication to reduce their dangerous compulsions.
There is only so much personal agency a person can possess, before it becomes public insurgency.
If there is an overhaul, I think the focus should be on a revised economic system, where there are fixed incomes based on job type or status, alongside absolute caps on how much wealth can be held. Anything beyond the cap is 100% taxed.
UBI is used to guarantee shelter, utilities, transport, healthcare, and generic items. Money is used for buying fancy stuff, such as sheets with patterns or colors, bigger housing, and so forth. Fixed incomes start at $10,000 a year for citizens, students get a range of income based on grades that range from $10,000 to $20,000, while basic jobs like waiters get $40k a year. Astronauts get $100k, the absolute cap for annual income. Leaders get their position and pay rank voted by the workers of the company.
It is best if everyone had personal freedom, but they shouldn’t have absolute freedom over everybody else. I hope the arrangement I outlined gives enough flexibility that most folks would feel fulfilled.
This is the solution, but to help wean them off their addiction, maybe we could send them all to addiction rehab facilities, just to give them an out so we don’t have to get violent. They are addicts and compassion is the best way out of this mess. Fight fire with water
I won’t lie, and I’m sure some would have some criticisms, but that sounds like a good enough cure to me.
There are definetely psychological effects of holding a million or more dollars for long periods of time.
I’m feeling a miniature version of this. For the first time in years I have $5,000 in my bank account and nothing I need to buy at the moment, but I’m still frozen because I know I can’t spend it because I know I will eventually need it for something. Imagine feeling this on a billionaire scale. They just keep accruing more & more & they never give it to anyone who desperately needs it because they are hoarding it for some future selfish unknown purpose.
The only cure is the Billionaire Attitude Readjustment Tool, the one invented in France.
Taking the BART?
More along the terms of a guillotine…
I modified an acronym found in a set of humorous IT stories following a rather crotchety system admin, where the users who upset him the most by being “Problems existing in between chair and keyboard” as “LUsers”. He has a special tool that he uses to readjust the attitudes of LUsers, simply called the LART. It’s painful.
It shouldn’t be possible. Full stop.
Billionaires are a scourge on everything good in this world.
There should be a cap on how much wealth a person or corporation* is legally allowed to possess. Once their net worth hits $999,999,999.99, it triggers a plug at the bottom of their bank account to open, forever draining** every penny that attempts to exceed that maximum amount.
*Corporations included because they seem to claim all the rights of personhood
**and TRULY trickling down to people who actually earn & deserve & need it
It doesn’t need to trickle down at all. If the money simply ceases to exist, what little we have becomes much more valuable.
Burn it all down.
I’d love to see it someday.
I thought globally we could institute Highlander rules for billionaires. Legal to kill each other and the winner gets to keep all the money of the losers. There can be only one! And then, you know, there will only be one of them and that might just sort itself out.
Hunger games but for billionaires. My bets go on John Uroboros
Greed is one of the seven mortal sins for a reason and you don’t have to be a religious person to see and experience that
I think it‘s called psychopathy.
The french had a good cure for wealth hoarding I think. Temporary though. We’ll need regular immunity shots to make sure it doesn’t spread again.
They are by definition a literal parasite.
Too horny? nymphomania
Too hungry? Obesity
Too sleepy? Narcolepsy
Too greedy?
Kleptomania.
The highest grossing form of theft in the US is wage theft
Gary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch
A disgusting excuse for class justice.
At least a vulgar killer pleading insanity uses a real disease to get out of jail.
If we accept it as a real disease then the only cure should be the one used by Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
100% success rate, no complaintsNo, affluenza is a bullshit excuse that rich people use to avoid responsibility
I do kind of feel there’s a psychological component to it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was comorbid with pedophelia.
It takes a certain type of person to become a billionaire…there needs to be a severe and untreated antisocial personality disorder underneath all of it. If you’ve got that, add in a bit of opportunity (usually just being born rich) and a bunch of enablers and baby, you got a billionaire.
Once you get to billionaire level, it’s just a cyclical disease. The privilege and recognition and power that just comes along with hitting Billionaire status in the first place is enough to continue to feed it more and more.
There is no cure…you can only treat the symptoms by donating all assets and earthly possessions. Then cognitive therapy can begin.
100% and I’m glad to see this take is getting some traction.
