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whilst t1_jdyji7e wrote

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Money isn't money, it's permission to live in a different social class, which is extremely exclusive and pushes down hard on everyone around them to keep them out. Life's better, you have access to more resources, the people around you help you more, you're safer and more comfortable.

People who were born into it, or who were born with the resources, drive, and good advice to luck into it, feel like that life is just how the world works. Imagine being permanently outside the palace gates and desperate, but there's one thing you can do that lets you in.

How willing would you be to give up the only thing that gave you the life the people around you just lucked into? How willing would you be to give up dealing if it meant giving up having a nice home and physical and mental safety?

Rather than treating doing desperate things to make money as an addiction, we should be treating the problem of desperation. But we as a society are mostly unwilling to do that.

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shampoo_mohawk_ t1_je08ndx wrote

I feel this so deep in my soul. The money-hoarding dragons protecting their piles of treasure that could buy healthcare, housing, social services, environmental protection, etc for everyone else are ruining everything.

After a person makes $100 million that should be the end of it. Like ok, you get some kind of award or trophy announcing you’ve won at life. Any wealth you’ve “made” over $100 million needs to go back to making the world better for everyone else. (I say “made” because one single person cannot make that much money alone. They obviously exploited the work or comfort of other humans in one way or another to get where they are.)

TAX THE ULTRA-WEALTHY NOW.

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Fabulous-Ad6844 t1_jdztnl5 wrote

Totally agree. In a society with good safety nets there is less desperation, more happiness, less crime, less hostility.

I noticed this when I moved from Australia to the US. I feel the boot on my neck in the US.

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isadog420 t1_jdz1pgt wrote

Very insightful. We’re either going to sink or swim together. Time for selfish people to gain foresight.

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juddsdoit t1_je3uoxv wrote

I thought what you wrote was very insightful. But I do think that gambling addiction like any addiction is more about numbing out at some point than money. But I also am not an expert.

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