Hatred often makes you want to hurt people, but people hurt peope in the name of greed more often, and not only with less potential for guilt, but is often the cause of delusional accolades and reassurance both from within oneself and from others.
Hypothetical:
A CEO lays off 10,000 employees that helped that company succeed, solely to increase earnings and not because the company is hurting, not only seriously hurting 9,997 people, but causing 3 to commit suicide.
A bumpkin gets in a fight with someone he hates the melanin of because he’s a moron and kills them.
Who did more damage to humanity that day? They’re both, I want to say evil but evil is subjective, they’re both highly antisocial, knowingly harmful behaviors, yet one correctly sends you to prison for a long time if not forever, while the other, far more premeditated and quite literally calculated act, is literally rewarded and partied about. Jim Kramer gives you a shout out on tv, good fucking times amirite!
Edit: and this felt relevant to post after someone tried to lecture me about equating layoffs to murder.
“Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don’t care if they kill people — as long as it’s profitable.”
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing
What he actually has are stocks in his company and other companies that are worth billions, that’s all. And rich people like him simply take out loans against their stocks and live off of the loan money. Part of the reason why they do everything to raise stock prices regardless of cost: they need more collateral to roll the loans over year after year.
Rich people are not actually rich. They don’t actually have cash on hand like that.
Actually most businesses aren’t really profitable like that either.
The U.S. isn’t even as wealthy as it claims to be, not by a long shot.
I mean that’s still actual wealth, but yes billionaires tend to be significantly more cash-poor than is believed.
He’s worth a lot of money. He does not have a lot of money. Important difference.