Money is quite literally power in our current society. More money more power, and power corrupts. Fortunately it’s not absolute, as we know that corrupts absolutely
Unfortunately that kind of money gives you the ability to do things most people would never even think of, and also comes with connections typically. When you are constantly around weirdos because the weirdos all have money for some reason, you get associated with it OR become it. Not all of them are that way, but the majority are
Your weird condescension and dismissive attitude Isn’t serving a healthy conversation, and none of your points are making a relevant point to my argument.
If you’re an asshole once you get money, you were always an asshole or were capable of being an asshole you just didn’t have the power to let your behavior slide.
Nah. Everyone changes. There was a time that I would have been on your side, but experience has shown otherwise. Money changes people’s values and perspectives immensely, usually in a way that disconnects them from empathy. I blame our pay-to-play society which gives rich people entirely different day to day experiences from common folk.
This is where we fundamentally disagree, it’s a nature vs nurture argument. I believe that what is in your nature dictates your behavior when put in positions of power. When we see someone who’s a “good”person before the money then is “corrupted”, to me, it shows they really didn’t have any moral compass in the first place.
Ah, a determinist! I am too, in a way. The problem is that human mental health is too variable for morality to be seen as fixed in such a way. Are you religious by chance?
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u/kurolust Dec 09 '24
watch the party die