Please watch the cgp grey videos on the rules for rulers or read the Dictator’s Handbook.
Sure, it’s aimed towards political leaders, but it can be mapped on many billionaires as well.
It would give you an idea about how one who is at the top would likely respond.
I’ll link it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I’ve watched that before. It’s not that I don’t understand why it happens. It’s that said playbook has obvious shortcomings in modern society that the up putting those in power in a worse condition.
I stand by my station my assertion that hording wealth to that degree is just stupid and short-sighted. It lowers the chances that advances the wealth holder would benefit from will happen in their lifetime.
This video on egotistic altruism covers it pretty well.
The more you give, the more your bowl will be plentiful.
Lemme be straight up:
We could be here for days on end arguing this, but its a pointless one given you are arguing what you feel they should do and how they’re stupid, while im saying your opinion literally doesn’t matter because they’re going to do what they want anyways and are incentivized to do so.
We are both right, and no matter how you feel about it, it is what it is, unless you can form a collective to change it.
(also, the Dictator’s Handbook is a acknowledgement of the constant pattern humans who take leadership follow, not a hyper strict rulebook you must pass in leadership class before you become el presidente)