JusticeForPorygonDoes money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people?
NauticalNoodleBoth but I believe to a certain degree a person can have a certain amount without it corrupting them. Beyond that point, everyone is corrupted. There are no truly benevolent billionaires because a person must engage in various questionable practices to keep growing their wealth at such an exponential rate.
I also think most people massively underestimate the impact that conditioning puts on a person’s outward demeanor, but that leads into a deeper tangentially related discussion. Regardless, people are complex creatures…
—To put it simply, to become a billionaire a person must invariably step on someone else.
Nah, it’s all a lottery. If being an asshole was enough there’d be way more rich people.
Nah, being an asshole is just a minimum requirement to becoming mega-wealthy with regards to anything but the lottery. —I didn’t say that immense luck still wasn’t required.
I really don’t think so. If you went back in time and bought a bunch of Apple stock you too could be a billionaire, no obviously antisocial behavior required.
There are examples of billionaires that were helped along the way by being an asshole, and it might improve your chances slightly, but it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.
That’s a given and the fact that most megarich people don’t recognize this feeds back into them being assholes.
Unambiguously agree. They actually prefer being called evil to being called lucky.