It’s hard to believe that even the billionaires are flourishing.

Musk certainly doesn’t seem to be a poster child for eudaimonia, being allegedly addicted to drugs.

Anyone who makes like 100 million dollars and thinks to themselves "this isn't enough money to stop working and just enjoy life" has something seriously wrong with them. The billionaire class will never be happy, and it's time for society to stop letting these loonies ruin society to satisfy their insanity.

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voisin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it is far to keep working if you love what you are doing. To filter, there should be an absolute cap on wealth at a few hundred million dollars. This would eliminate the incentive to manipulate politics in favour of yourself, but if you want to keep working you should be doing it for society via charity or taxes on anything additional that is earned.

Have a nice ceremony and present a medal for winning capitalism.

	▲	krapp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>To filter, there should be an absolute cap on wealth at a few hundred million dollars. One million dollars and not a penny more. Enough for most people to live comfortably, but not enough to buy governments, or for the upper classes to never need to work again to maintain their lifestyle and privilege. No human being needs or deserves a hundred million dollars.

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whynotmaybe 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I know a guy who has a few millions that he earned while being an executive of a startup that was bought.

Some of his friends are disappointed in him because he works as a dev in a huge company and now "sits on his millions".

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InsideOutSanta 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's the crazy part. The people at the top seem to think they're better off if they can get another billion in the bank, regardless of the impact on the rest of society. But they, too, live in that same society that they are destroying.

They seem to think it's better to be a king in the Middle Ages than just a regular rich person in modern society. They forget that the lives of kings in the Middle Ages were absolutely terrible.

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daymanstep 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He can retire whenever he wants.

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Workaccount2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Billionaires are a convenient distraction for the upper middle class.

The wealthiest group of people (on the whole) is the 70-95th percentile.

If we were to have the toppling of "the rich" that brought about meaningful change to the "poor", it would necessarily include the toppling of the ~$200k income households.

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TimorousBestie 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Did you perhaps respond to the wrong comment? I didn’t say anything about toppling the rich or whatever.

	▲	hackable_sand an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not even casually?

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krapp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The purpose of capitalism is the flourishing of the capitalist classes.

The labor classes only need to be maintained like machines or draft animals, kept just alive and well enough to afford the rent on their lives so they can continue to create value.

The collective reactions to this aren't mental illness, they're trauma responses. Capitalism is accelerating towards its final form and the shock is giving people PTSD.