Cuz they could just wake up and be like "ah damn ain't it nice that everything here is built and designed for us, let's enjoy not having any material concerns". But instead they're all "OMG they're trying to get rid of white ppl" and "no soy is making everyone femme". 
Not that they deserve my concern, but damn they're really ruining their experience. Also no one will date their goolish ass and their kids hate them.
this is more of a charitable/philosophical understanding, but beyond the basics, no additional wealth/prosperity brings lasting happiness. psychologically, happiness is fleeting. we always return to a baseline.
life is defined by a pervasive unsatisfactoriness that can only be confronted by cultivating an inner peace, loving affection for others, integrity, purpose in community, etc etc. being leisurely and opulent doesn't grant these treasures of personal development. generally it does the opposite!
every born mega rich 1% person I've met has seemed to me, plagued with fear. fear that they will lose their wealth and with it, whatever shred of joy in their lives they have. for them, joy is having the finest things and whatever material whim they desire. even though regular people know having really nice things doesn't grant unending happiness, these people assume it must and cling to it, existentially.
this, to me, is the psychology of why capitalism is fucked. the people who "win" it are so afraid of losing, it makes them too fearful to share and instead accelerates their grasping. very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.
very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.
It's strange mirrors like these that make me wonder if I'm not living in some earthbound hell tbh
Arthur Schopenhauer said that even satisfactions are just staging posts in a cycle of suffering.
I'm not a practising Buddhist but I think their doctrine of compassion and especially non-judgement is the best way of at least taking the edge off the most painful parts of being a human!
The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.
this, to me, is the psychology of why capitalism is fucked. the people who "win" it are so afraid of losing, it makes them too fearful to share and instead accelerates their grasping. very Realm of the Hungry Ghosts type shit, eat eat eat and never be filled.
Read Bell Hooks' A Will To Change a while back and had a similar revelation about the patriarchal dominance hierarchy. Everybody has vulnerabilities, and to "win" requires treating everyone around you as an enemy and dealing with the unending threat that one of your own weaknesses will be exposed.
“[Capitalists] act as if they are being chased by a bear,” wrote Zhang Lin, a Beijing political commentator, in response to these comments. “They are powerless to control the bear, so they are competing to outrun each other to escape the animal.”
from https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
If you have money, you're living in a utopia (for you). Say you're walking down the street and you feel like a sandwich — someone will be forced to make you a sandwich on demand. We call it a "cafe", but that is literally the deal. It's an incredible luxury when you think about it. Yet all most rich people do is whine about how they're an oppressed minority or whatever. It's pathetic.
most of these people don't even have mental health issues to blame for it. As in they're miserable entirely because of social structures and nothing else and they still have the gall to turn around and defend that shit with their life
Didn't someone say elon does/did so much ketamine that he completely flipped the switch ? I think there's a correlation betweenthe wealthy and taking on random health fads without knowing the consequences, thus causing long lasting damage.
There's so much ideological analysis of conservative people. But not nearly enough of neoliberal post-Reaganite society in very recent years, or in other words, mainstream United States. You ever notice that the majority of ideology many rich neoliberal people, and by extension, many 'upper-middle-class' or, I guess, PMC? people in similar states of prosperity, seems to exist entirely in justifying their own unhappiness and other's unhappiness by blaming it on themselves and them? I swear every techbro has a strange mash of stolen spiritual beliefs, classic pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstrapsism, and ableism that makes up their whole worldview.
I think it's because genuine happiness requires such immense action against one's own class position in these cases that the most natural response is to rationalize it as the result of something else, either personal fault or some sort of Other (because, while happiness may be something many pursue, very few people pursue it to the cost of survivability. And revolution is extremely risky). Conservatives actually have it way better than liberals in this sense, because they don't spend most of their ideological discussions basically telling each other how they're at fault for literally everything bad in their life. They actually try to find issues in the real world besides "you have a bad brain" to tackle. Which makes sense because it's a lot easier to make fake shit up then it is to hate yourself all the time, and the only reason richer neoliberal types expose themselves to this is probably because they pride themselves on being the Reasonable Ones and, denying themselves both revolutionary thought and self-delusion, their only option is complete and utter hatred of themselves and others who they view as intrinsically lesser, less intelligent, and more 'vulgar'. Every
community is a community self harm sourcing center.
