JK isn't kidding. damn.
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Here a man that understands.
We actually live in a really sick situation because the world runs on an abstraction of power that can be unreasonably accumulated into a central power.
If we were smart, our politicians would be monks who live in austerity, instead we set up a system designed to promote wealthy narcissists.
I didn't say get rid of the free market or trade or private property. I just suggested that the abstraction in the form of money is corrupting and bad and people get defensive.
People want to be rich. They want to live like kings, which requires underpaid servants. They don't understand the luxury we already have in the first world. They think we're poor.
We're actually spoiled.
The sad part is a lot of our political establishment has in their minds that they live an austere lifestyle because they compare it to those they rub elbows with in the private sector who fund their campaigns. Brandon is a perfect example. From a 1974 article:
That $42.5K is over $250K in 2022 dollars BTW. He has been obsessed with money from the get go.
The more I think about it, the more I don't think it was an accident that the senator from the banking state came out of nowhere. (Very Obama like in his trajectory. Funny how he ended up being his VP.)
https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/
To be fair though, the average run of the mill doctor makes more than 250k per year… 250k per year isn’t much when you have other nations tempting you with 10 of millions in bribes.
There comes a point with money, where if you aren't happy with the amount you have, then you won't ever be happy with it, this makes you corruptible.
If you aren't happy with the money you make and you aren't interested in leaving your job or starting a new one. You are corruptible in this moment, it's just a matter settling the ammount required to corrupt you.
Many people don't even need much to be corrupted, some people actively want to be corrupted for a couple extra easy bucks.