• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s flexing power.

    Their central pursuit of capital is just the pursuit of power to wield over others.

    At scale, beyond meeting personal material needs/wants, that’s what capital becomes, power over others.

    You can fuck off and indulge all your hobbies in a mansion on the beach for the rest of your life long before you hit a billion dollars, but at those levels you want to influence elections/culture and control ever more people and resources. I consider it mental illness, I wish the rest of our society did as well.