Prince Andrew

[AuroraSaab]

But that seems to be the case with most people with more wealth than they could spend in hundreds of lifetimes: despite their wealth, they still want more... for what?

I can understand it with business people and innovators. The thrill is in the building the business, discovering the technology, or developing an exciting product. The money is just confirmation of their work or idea . With old politicians and the likes of Andrew it just seems desperately greedy. It also shows a rather pathetic admiration for the billionaire level of uber wealth that you would think they would have grown out of.

 

[First Aspect]

It's the Cashley Cole phenomenon. The money itself becomes irrelevant, but the number is just another indication of comparative status.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It's the Cashley Cole phenomenon. The money itself becomes irrelevant, but the number is just another indication of comparative status.

So it shows a complete lack of empathy for the rest of the world and the people in it

just I am richer therefore I am better - don;t care about your problems

 

[diplodicus]

It's the Cashley Cole phenomenon. The money itself becomes irrelevant, but the number is just another indication of comparative status.

So it shows a complete lack of empathy for the rest of the world and the people in it

just I am richer therefore I am better - don;t care about your problems

I think this is exactly it.

 

[BoldonLad]

But that seems to be the case with most people with more wealth than they could spend in hundreds of lifetimes: despite their wealth, they still want more... for what?

Ultimately they are hollow, sad people, who will never be contented, as accumulating unspendable wealth is their only goal, and they will never have enough. If they weren't the cause of penury and misery of so many people, they might almost deserve our pity.

Only a sample of one, but, way back in the Thatcher years, the smallish company I worked for was bought up by an "Entrepreneur". He was a reasonably pleasant guy (if you were delivering, I was fortunate enough not to find out what he was like if you were not doing so 😊).

He always said that after the initial million, it was not about the money. 😊

 

[briantrumpet]

So it shows a complete lack of empathy for the rest of the world and the people in it

just I am richer therefore I am better - don;t care about your problems

At least quite a few filthy rich Victorian-era folk had the humanity to invest money in things that would improve the lot of their workers (not least as a vaguely contented and healthy workforce will help productivity), and funded things that would, for instance, make their lives less grim (thinking of things like choral societies and brass bands).

I still find it astonishing that the minimum wage in the US has not increased from $7.25 in 2007, meaning poverty programmes effectively subsidise big business that pay these pverty wages, while billionaires like Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg amass billions, and half the world starves. The inhumanity is going off the scales in the 21st century, and is no better than 18th-19th-century imperialism: it's no wonder the far right want to rehabilitate its image.

 

[Bazzer]

The inhumanity is going off the scales in the 21st century, and is no better than 18th-19th-century imperialism: it's no wonder the far right want to rehabilitate its image.

Well if the likes of Leonard Leo, Clarence Thomas, Virginia Thomas, John Roberts, Musk, the orange rapist and others are anything to go by, they don't appear to have got the memo.

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

. The inhumanity is going off the scales in the 21st century, and is no better than 18th-19th-century imperialism: it's no wonder the far right want to rehabilitate its image.

This is why the ECHR is in their sights. flog it to the stupids as being a barrier to 'sovereignty', whilst neglecting to mention the initial 18 articles offer a, wide-ranging, level of protection(s) to all individuals.
Makes me shudder when i think about it.
Then the anger kicks in.

 

[Pblakeney]

Some people seem to have a gaping hole in their psyche that can never be filled. Trump's another one. They can do enormous damage.

I'm glad I'm not made that way. All I need is a roof over my head, a few good people, good food and loads of bikes. Perfectly normal.

I'm fed up of all those elites thinking that they are above us all.
I mean, who needs more than one bike*?

(*Says the guy with 3)