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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society (www.wired.com)

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[–] usernametbd@lemmy.zip 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health. The stuff billionaires focus on behind closed doors would be considered psychosis in a homeless person, but they articulate it on fancy stages and suddenly it’s normalized. Power and money control needs to be as decentralized as possible. Even if it means things move slower, it’s better than unilateral power in the hands of a small group of malignant narcissists surrounded by sycophants.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health.

I think cause and effect are exactly opposite here: you have to be exceptionally, sociopathically greedy to want to become that rich, and then work towards it. Imagine all the actively harmful and antisocial decisions each billionaire has to make to increase their wealth. I believe most people just aren't cut out for it.

But of course wealth/power then serves as an amplifier.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

It's definitely this. The Venn diagram between psychopaths and billionaires is a circle. Hell it's almost a circle just with CEOs in general.

The lack of empathy is a massive advantage to operating in the corporate world.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure, I think money does corrupt all but the steeliest of hearts. Right now I wish I made a little more so we could accomplish several goals we want. Once those are done, there are loftier long-term goals! Like many, I doubt I'll ever be satisfied with my income, because I'm ambitious in the rest of my life. If I won a million dollars, I like to think I'd be satisfied because I could get those things done, although I'd still have to work. But... at that point I'd want more, so I could retire early and have more time to spend on the rest of my life. Now if somehow I got that much money - I like to think I'd be satisfied. But we can see time and again how that doesn't happen. There'd be something else just out of reach. Our capability to want is near endless, and it's a hunger that gets worse the more you feed it.

So really I don't fool myself into thinking I'm immune to it, and I'm not a sociopath.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

To be clear, Thiel was A Bad Dude from the get-go, but his impact and influence has expanded immensely since he made his nut in the PayPal era (he’s one of the OG PayPal mafia, along with phony stark)