Immense wealth possesses you just as much as you possess it: managing it becomes a full-time job. You don’t know whom to trust; you can start to imagine your friends aren’t friends at all; it can dominate and poison your family relationships. It can hollow you out, socially, intellectually and morally.
You know we could really help these ultra-rich motherfuckers with this problem, all it takes is to tax them as they should be taxed.
NOOOOOOO!!
MY PRECIOUSSSS! FILTHY COMMUNISTES!
As an anarchist, I wouldnt think this is a remediation. To move grip from one holder to another would still cause concentration of power. Id suggest that we instead shape our languages to limit grip as much as possible. Degrip is remediation.
So let Elon keep all his ill-gotten gains but we talk in a contrived and awkward way so that in six generations they might be so used to it that they’re no longer able to describe the inequity in which they live?
Do you have a practical example of words we can switch out rather than taxing the billionaires?
The reason I emphasize language is because we oftentimes lack the remediating words that we need.
Elon got his wealth is because we gave it to him. We gave it to him by accepting our roles as consumers, voters, and grippers.
Instead we need to find remediating roles. Roles that has action, attitudes and spreadability that causes remediation.
A role can be a degripper. One who strives to remove one’s own grip, guiding others to degrip themselves and do action to degrip griphoarders.
Generally though, by using words that shifts our focus away from consumerism, towards nature, our peers and blossoming, we degrip. An example of this would be to integrate natural elements into our language. For example in norwegian, instead of “mastery”, I say “blossoming”, or instead of saying “rich in colors”, I would say “bloom in colors”. Or being aware of the species around us and pointing them out for our peers.
In the past, religion was somewhat of an outlet. If you were ridiculously wealthy you tended to get yourself a monastery of monks praying for your soul, or you might build a temple or a church so that the commoners bless you as a benefactor. Alternatively, the ancien régime also had the concept of noblesse oblige, that their privilege had some kind of reciprocating component, to take care of your lessers. But most of our ultra rich are basically untethered from reality. There are some notable exceptions, but nowhere near the rule.
noblesse oblige
If the rich only understood this. We keep having to bash their heads in with rocks every few centuries because they keep forgetting.
Here I am thinking I’ll hire my buddy as an ornamental hermit if I gain massive amounts of wealth.
I’ve heard things like this are the reason why Charlie Sheen went off the deep end. Highest paid television actor in history at the time and it wasn’t enough. Had to do crazy drugs, had to have wild promiscuous sex, had to do anything to feel alive.
I look back on the times when I was poor and I felt more actively engaged in life than now when I am not rich but not poor.
It almost makes me want to sell everything I have and throw it all away and go start over somewhere else just to see what life is like again.
It’s the struggle to rebuild, it gives you meaning and motivation to continue
I just want to play Minecraft for the first time again too.
Subnautica for me
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Billionaires are dragons. Like the bad kind, like Smaug.
There are so few good dragons in fiction that most people are likely not thinking of the good dragons first.
I am struggling to think of good dragons.
Edit: I should have thought harder. I forgot about Puff.
Paarthurnax 💔
Easy. Falcor, the Luckdragon.
The dragon in one of the Witcher short stories comes instantly to mind. He was pretty great
I haven’t finished the show yet, but John Hurt seems pretty chill in Merlin
D&D has the metallic dragons and Bahamut. There’s also Falkor from The Neverending Story, the How To Train Your Dragon movie series, the titular Dragon Prince, …
What about Puff the Magic Dragon? Or The Soup Dragon?
How To Train Your Dragon is full of them.
And then there’s Luck Dragons. Or best of all, The Green Dragon in Bywater.Ever seen Dragonheart?
Dudley The Dragon would like a word
Igon somewhere
“Curse you Bayle!”
Haha rampant greed and unchecked wealth are destroying our world, here’s a video game joke!
Touch grass my dude. Anger will leave you with nothing.
My anger is medical and largely untreatable, and after dealing with it for more than 4 decades I am sure I could write a scholarly thesis as to why it is destructive and a second one on the harm well meaning people cause when they give unsolicited advice.
I have two children on the spectrum one of which needs heavy assistance. Both are medicated and have been through numerous therapies. I’ll tell you the same thing I tell them. Autism does not entitle you to be an asshole.
I have more than intimate experience helping people like you navigating your challenges. My oldest son has severe anger issues related to Asperger’s and ODD. Neither of those things entitle him to be an asshole.
Get over yourself.
If money is such a problem, they got so many problems. I think we can solve them.
Good reference, Charlotte
I’d love to have billionaire problems instead of poor person problems.
Me, I’d rather have poor problems which just affect me, instead of their problems which fuck up the whole world.
To have wealth is soulcrushing because it removes you from your peers and a sense of community. We loose our ability to nurture ourselves.
Loose your grip, and allow yourself to blossom with your peers.
Hoarding isn’t only bad for society, but also for oneself.
We should seek a wealth of community, of knowledge, of wonder, of life, of love: a wealth that does not impoverish others. We should seek not private luxury, but private sufficiency and public luxury.
We could do that.
Not that it matters at all, but if anyone else is also curious - the boat in the pic is a 20 year old Fairline 62 Fly, about 500k moneys today, depending on location & if overhauled.
