Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@Rhodium103
There's definitely a kind of person for whom life has been reinterpreted as a shallow game where money is points, arbitrary signifiers of status are trophies, people you don't personally know are NPCs and if you're harming them you're winning.
All the real ways we benefit from all of us thriving are not part of the game and don't count towards your high score.
Also the game is rigged and pay-to-play: most players only get to earn the cruelty achievements, not the yacht money.
The Doctor