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Annie Gottlieb's avatar

Interesting explanation, and surely part of the pattern. "Rational" though? I don't know. My hunch is that in a billionaire's brain, the pattern that's playing out is addiction. In this scenario, the dopamine rush is not from HAVING, but from the moment of GETTING more, and that moment has to be repeated over and over, with increasing intensity needed to get the high. Junkies will steal from their mother to get a fix. Billionaires steal from their Mother Earth

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