You are stronger than a billionaire
By: Agile Possible
Tags: Billionaires, Bernie Sanders

The sitting president should be a reminder that though they have inestimable piles of money, most billionaires are pieces of shit. They are soft humans, coddled in the decadence of convenience. Taught that living like wanton grown-up babies is okay because they some how earned it by being genetically predisposed to greatness (and also a healthy trust fund). This article is a great read, but seriously, this is the kind of maniacs we’re dealing with:

The clients of this Geneva-based wealth manager also “believe that they are descended from the pharaohs, and that they were destined to inherit the earth”.

Yes, having a fortune comes with power. But that doesn’t mean they’re exceptional manifestations of all the possible human incarnates (or fucking Pharoahs), just lucky. Or in many instances unscrupulous enough to out-do their competition by screwing people over in ways others wouldn’t. As AOC said, you don’t earn a billion dollars, you take a billion dollars.

Point is…If it seems like this asshole is a bumbling idiot incapable of being president of a student government, let alone a country its because he is actually that incompetent. A lot of billionaires are likely as bad as him if not worse.

If an average billionaire was forced to work at your job (jobs?) for a week, they’d probably panic and run for their limo. They couldn’t hack it.

If you work 40/week, you do something the sitting president evidently can’t.

That’s because these 1%’ers have gotten to believe so much of their own bullshit that they think they’re actually special and not just lucky or unscrupulous.

This is not a dis, an ad hominem, or an accident. Its a method the 1% has for protecting their egos. Its not enough that they’re inestimably wealthy, they also have to have earned it somehow. So they demonize ‘indulgent/lazy’ behaviors of the ‘poor’ to hypocritically distance themselves from their own shallow, indulgent lifestyles. Lifestyles they pay fortunes to keep secret. Again, from this article:

It makes sense. If one has more money than you could possibly spend in 5 lifetimes, life might get boring. So on a mission to create some interesting plot twist for their own boring life stories (born rich, stayed rich, died), a bunch of these ass hats probably have a coke-fueled epiphanies on a yachts sometime in their mid-20’s like: “DUDE, BRO, I’M A PHARAOH, I CAN FEEL IT!”. Then they travel the world trying to find their inner-higher-being or whatever the fuck and (pay for immense help to) climb mount Everest.

These people are maniacs by definition. What else could possess a person to seek out more money once they had already accumulated more than they could spend making themselves and their great-grandchildren rich? What’s the point of more commas in the bank account at that point? What possesses a person to stay late at work to procure a fortune for their great-great-great-great-grandchild’s nephew rather than go spend time with their own kids?

There isn’t a rational explanation; there is simply a compulsion that exceeds rational thought. That’s why Bezos needs more. And people like you and I can’t understand that.

That’s because billionaires are ill people. There is no answer to the question of “why more”. They have a sickness.

They fancy themselves as something like deities but in reality, many of them are totally lost. They’re adult children, deprived of the day-to-day grind of basic human survival that keeps one’s wits sharp. Daily struggles make us who we are; most billionaires don’t have them. So the accumulation of more money to out-do the other rich person becomes the favorite past-time. Consider these two lovely examples of human beings talking about how funny price gouging was with Enron (perhaps not billionaires themselves but working in service of some particularly shitty ones).

These billionaires don’t think straight. They’re obsessed with money and power and are terrific at taking it. But it is not because they are superior humans, its because they’re sick; they don’t know how to be happy without more. Many struggle with basic forms of generosity a child could understand. And in that way, they’re not as strong or capable as you are. Sacrificing for another makes you strong and gives you character.

If you’ve worked a 50 hour week while raising kids, you’ve done something a billionaire cannot. Most billionaires don’t raise their kids, its too hard. They don’t know how hard it is to drop the kid off at the daycare crying, unable to explain to them why you need extra money this month so you can’t spend as much time together.

If your parents didn’t ‘approve’ of your sexual orientation and kicked you out when you were young, you had to summon a strength and wit to stay alive on your own that a billionaire may never know.

If you started your own art studio or record label from the ground-up, then you know the feeling of risk associated with putting some of yourself out there in your work and succeeding despite the anxiety. Billionaires mostly don’t make art, they just buy it.

If you’re an addict who’s getting clean, you’re defeating an enemy that many billionaires don’t even have the courage to acknowledge exists. If you help someone else who is struggling to also get their life back, you’ve done more of a service for humans than many billionaires do with all their fortunes.

You’re stronger, smarter, and more resilient than these people. They just have more money than you. That’s not to underestimate the importance of taking seriously the power the billionaire class holds. But our collective strength — to understand the gravity of this election and mobilize to nominate the best candidate to to confront the billionaire class — is being flexed in the polls. We see what is going on here and won’t be fooled.

So don’t buy into their class-shaming horseshit. They’re the one who should be ashamed.