It would seem to me that becoming ultra wealthy necessarily disconnects you from ordinary people. You have security concerns for yourself and family, you don’t want to be constantly peppered by requests for financial help.
Plus your resources allow consumption of things otherwise out of your reach: women, exotic travel, yachts, mixing with other elites. Also the darker things (Epstein elites).
So after a while you not only won’t mix with the hoi polloi, you literally can’t because you share nothing with them.
The trappings of wealth start to include political influence, which seems to encourage the idea that being wealthy makes you some kind of expert because important people listen to you and will do what you want with an appropriate consideration or contribution.
There is an argument in here for limiting wealth to avoid this descent into disconnected sociopathy.
So what about those with political influence or high placed in bureaucracy who are even more power and have even less in common? Worse yet, the positions select for those who are not only manipulators but have a malleable sense of reality. The infamous Karl Rove attributed quote about being an empire and making their own reality.
If we are going to avoid promoting sociopathy the first thing to do is not to make the sollipistic manipulators even more powerful.
Plus your resources allow consumption of things otherwise out of your reach: women, exotic travel, yachts, mixing with other elites. Also the darker things (Epstein elites).
So after a while you not only won’t mix with the hoi polloi, you literally can’t because you share nothing with them.
The trappings of wealth start to include political influence, which seems to encourage the idea that being wealthy makes you some kind of expert because important people listen to you and will do what you want with an appropriate consideration or contribution.
There is an argument in here for limiting wealth to avoid this descent into disconnected sociopathy.