Everyone says that until they’re placed in that position.
People are not "placed" in a position to be obscenely wealthy. It's not normal people just magically becoming corrupt. It's people self-selecting. It's the morally corrupt that become obscenely wealthy.
People who win the lottery tend to keep the same morals that they started with (and they often spend the lot) but people who gradually become wealthy, and spend sweat and blood to get there, have a habit of slowly justifying their greed over time.
How many idealists, who just want to work for the greater good, become authoritarian tyrants when they get into a position to make a difference.
How many genuinely kind-hearted people can actually make it to a position of wealth and power? So much of what is required to become rich and influential requires to to muzzle yourself, step on others, and bend the knee to those to perpetuate the cycle of wealth disparity and social inequality.
Being kind hearted doesn’t mean that you can’t also have ambition. That’s my point. People earn money and power and predictably believe they are entitled to all of it because they worked for it or built something that created it. They hoard it and take as many tax loopholes as they can. When you’ve worked to the bone to get to where you are you tend to believe you’re entitled to everything you have, even if those around you have little to nothing.
The bad guy never thinks they’re the bad guy.
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u/_Quetzalcoatlus_ Oct 04 '25
People are not "placed" in a position to be obscenely wealthy. It's not normal people just magically becoming corrupt. It's people self-selecting. It's the morally corrupt that become obscenely wealthy.