When you can have everything, what you want most is what you are not allowed to have.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest
forbidden fruit is the sweetest
Etymology
A reference to the story in the Bible in which God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, but they are tempted and do so anyway.
Proverb
- Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.
Or cannot have. Money and even power only gets you so far.
Plus, to get filthy rich in the first place you usually have to be a pretty slimy and immoral person.
Facts
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Humans tend to push boundaries. For the super rich there are nearly no boundaries set. Breaking most laws only costs money, which doesn't scale with the wealth of the culprit.
Drugs, legal girls, legal entertainment gets probably boring if you have it all the time. So they get more depraved.
I would not be surprised if some of them torture, kill and enslave people just for kicks
John Mcafee's exploits are worth a read
The one thing he did NOT do, however, was turn Mcafee into the steaming pile of spyware sewage that it is today. He knew where to draw the line.
~/s~
Wasn't there that incident of rich people paying to gun people down with sniper rifles in some war a few decades ago thats now being claimed to being repeated in palestine?
As I said: not surprised.
Shootings in a war zone, who would investigate?
There are places in the world where the law breaks down. You wouldn't even have to go to a war zone for that: If the super rich abducted some homeless people who would notice? Especially if it's in a poor country with already corrupt police.
Hell even in "first world" countries the poorest are nearly unprotected.
If I become the world's dictator, I want a big castle so I can look cool.
Everyone gets free healthcare, free education, UBI, all basic needs are met. But I want a statue of me in every city, and portraits of me everywhere, every gets little handbook that contains my ideological views and my life story.
Literally no where on my list is abusing people/animals, wtf.
For now
Exactly, in the end they will always want more. More money, more power. It corrupts.
Dude, you got my vote. I don't care if you're black, white, brown, yellow, blue, or change your color like some RGB lights designed to give people seizures. Guy, girl, trans, both at the same time or neither, replace all your toes with vaginas and your fingers with dicks, I don't give a fuck. As long as they are consenting adults, I don't care if you are single, married, in a thruple, or got whatever the fuck was going on in that show sense8. I will put up statues of you, I will put up portraits, I will get tattoos (that's right I said multiple) of you and even let you choose the images.
If you can manage to make good on your promises and somehow avoid f****** any children along the way, then you will be my personal hero.
Edit: You know what, I've come back to sweeten the pot for you. Any time you want, night or day, you can stop by and fuck one of my couches. I've got 2 couches, a love seat, and this sassy little chair that can't decide if it is a small love seat or a really large chair.
Tell me more about these dick fingers…
Nothing compared to a sense8 orgy.
rich people are mostly occupied by punching down. They incredibly paranoid about everyone else encroaching on their financial security even though it is borderline unrealistic given their positions and political weight.
this shit runs rampant in our agrarian sector - it is overburdened with HUGE businesses across the supply chains that do just enough to hold the spot but it could've been way better in terms salaries and production quality.
meanwhile, there is basically a separate agrarian sector comprised of small businesses grinding to get by in the local economies - SOMEHOW these small companies have 50% higher average wages for most positions (excluding top management of course) and they rely heavily on cutting edge tech to keep the crops healthy and the land fertile.
so what the big business does? increase the salaries? nah! improve the production quality? nah! they just bully small businesses with media campaigns bordering on libel - with graphs and shit explaining why small businesses are hurting the agrarian sector because they overpay employees while devaluing the products by being on the market and their cutting edge tech - that's blasphemy man, that's not how god intended.
How about pretending to save world hunger and build infrastructure but actually
I just want to lay there on my pile of gold doing dragon things ok?
Yes, this consist mostly of sleeping and acting smug to would be thieves. Maybe torching people if they get uppity. Just normal things alright?
*acting Smaug
If I had lots of money I'd eat really fancy food most days
edit: oh and I'd buy lots of art supplies and get into oil painting, or maybe watercolor.
Yeah, it would be hard to not have a nice steak 3 or 4 times a week. The only reason I wouldn't eat it every day is because I know I'd get a craving for pizza or wings now and then.
Oooh yeah I would definitely invest in a personal chef
I'm moving to the middle of nowhere and having my supplies shipped.
You know what I'd do if I had a million dollars? Two D&D campaigns at the same time.
Oh I like the idea of spending money on ads. I would spend the money promoting free open source alternatives to just kick the ever living shit out of the monopolists.
Oh, maybe make an alternative to quicken. Just because fuck intuit.
In the nude. With 12 prostitutes.
Nice, just enough to have 1 play each of the PHB classes
Custom rules. Like shower in shemen and "hrnnggg"
Expressly doing something socially repugnant with impunity is a n expression of power coupled with añ expression of disdain and contempt for those ideals
It's not the specific act that intrigues them.... It is people's reaction to them doing it with no consequences
Financial obesity is neurotoxic.
If I were filthy rich I would make my own animal shelter and enough advertisements that it would be always empty
If I were filthy rich, I too would make my own animal shelter. But it wouldn't be possible to adopt them. If I'm hoarding wealth, I might as well also hoard cats.
My dream is to own a plot of lands and fill it with rescue animals. I want a cow that bursts into my home for hugs and snacks. Dogs and cats running around. Maybe a few horses. And I just want to spend all day outside with them ❤️
If you're outside, who will give the cow hugs and snacks or do cows only burst in at night?
In my fantasy, I have many lovers that help me with the animals. Lol jk but maybe not 😝
Many lovers but just one cow, that's un herd of.
The lovers don't heffa time for more than one cow
If I were rich id get way too much into magic the gathering
You are already, only difference is that you would have every card multiple times
The poor get all the breaks.
If I was filthy rich, I'd do most of the things blue suggests just for the ego. Donate to charities and open source projects - gets your name on the sponsored list. Get shoutouts from artists. Invest in ridiculous infrastructure projects just because they're big and fun to watch being built. Commission a huge yacht so mine's bigger no matter who pulls up next to me.
I don't see how I could even have time for the kiddy diddling. I'd be busy flying from one project to another. How's my new skyscraper in NYC doing? Okay, cool, now my crew has finished building a new F1-worthy racetrack in Estonia, I'm flying there. In two days I'll fly to the southern hemisphere to catch some sun.
I would, however, have an absolutely abhorrent CO2 output if I was a billionaire. But then again they all do.