- 18 Jan 2015 18:16
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We have what I see as a problem of greed today. The top few most successful, most powerful, most wealthy people don't seem to be satisfied with what they are and have. It has been said that what they want is prestige first, power second, and security third. And wealth is the means by which they obtain and keep those three.
But their inability to be satisfied with what they have and what they have accomplished keeps them chasing after more and more. And ultimately this seems to lead to well-funded effort to manipulate government to assist them in fulfilling their goal of being "number one" at least in their own eyes. But this manipulation of government through the influence of their extreme wealth means a diminishing democracy for the rest of us, which, in realty, is just a diminishment of democracy itself.
Is their greed and seemingly irresistible drive, then, a serious form of sociopathy?
But their inability to be satisfied with what they have and what they have accomplished keeps them chasing after more and more. And ultimately this seems to lead to well-funded effort to manipulate government to assist them in fulfilling their goal of being "number one" at least in their own eyes. But this manipulation of government through the influence of their extreme wealth means a diminishing democracy for the rest of us, which, in realty, is just a diminishment of democracy itself.
Is their greed and seemingly irresistible drive, then, a serious form of sociopathy?
Progress does not go backward.