A.R. Moxon1d ago
At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

Where It Ends
Where It Ends

Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.

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Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
Depravity is, to the mind consumed by the billionaire mentality, a flex. It's the prize. It seems the whole reason for the money in the first place. The more you can make other people suffer, the more the rules don't apply to you.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
The worse a crime you can commit, and the more blatantly you can do it, the more you can demonstrate your impunity to the most foundational laws of human decency. I think this is why child rape is so popular with billionaires.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
I suspect it's less a proclivity for younger people that drives billionaires to child rape, but the fact that child rape is a crime seen as unforgivable. To a mind consumed by billionaire mentality, to rape children with impunity demonstrates beyond doubt that you are immune from accountability.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
And whenever the hummock of the depravity iceberg pokes out of humanity's waters, there are those—even those who do not have the ability to pursue depravity with impunity—who nevertheless instinctively rush to defend the precious reputations of our depraved decency-exempt overclass.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
his sort of thing came out during the Me Too movement. It usually started with a quick admission that, yes, the alleged crimes were terrible and should be taken seriously. This brief sop to decency expunged, the defender moved quickly to worry about the danger of expanding the scope.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
How far is this sort of thing supposed to go? we were asked. How many careers will be ruined? Where does it all end? This reaction ... it’s an unnatural instinct, culturally taught, buried deep. It’s a statement of alignment. An abuser culture will always double as an enabler culture.
Show threadA.R. Moxon1d ago
In an enabler culture, revelation of the offense is the offense. This—yet another moment when it becomes obvious that powerful men consume women and children for pleasure—is going to be framed, once again, as a scary time for powerful men.
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"In an enabler culture, revelation of the offense is the offense"

I've lived this in my personal life. When I found out that my old Buddhist teacher at the local "temple" was cheating on his wife with other students and assaulting many more, we were shunned by almost everyone involved after I pointed it out in a community meeting.
He is still at it over a year later.

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