A finance expert and Fortune 500 therapist examine the potential motivations of billionaire cheater Steve Ballmer and his subordinates. Unsurprisingly, people who have enough money to do literally anything they want do not evaluate risk the same way as the rest of us. Just another sign that wealth hoarding is a mental illness, imo.
Hate to break it to the noobs, but Ballmer has ALWAYS been an asshole, I mean like from the first day. He probably punched his mama in the face once he was out. That’s why Gates put him in charge, mistaking sheer arrogance (which he had) as managerial ability (which he absolutely did not have).
He’s been a brutal bastard for as long as he’s been in business, and had the authors talked to anyone that worked at Microsoft in the 90s they’d have known it. Instead, they write the entire article as though this is just recently happening, which is odd as fuck. It makes me wonder who they are trying to convince, and why.
It’s hard to blame acquired wealth when a motherfucker never had an ethic beyond bullying and “fuck you I got mine” anyway.
Gates was also an asshole. Fucker bought the rights to what was literally called (internally) as QDOS, or Quick and Dirty Operating System, then turned around and sold it to IBM, as if it was theirs. We got stuck with that shitty foundation for decades, with the many iterations of DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 9x, etc.
No argument there. Those two were best friends for a long time, and Gates’ daughter is following in her daddy’s amoral footsteps. It’s not accidental Gates was friends with Epstein. They’re all alike.
So maybe it’s a cyclic problem. You have to act like a psychopath to become a billionaire. And becoming a billionaire makes you act like a psychopath.
Yep, pretty much. It’s made even worse with peer re-enforcement.
Yeah, I think they got it in the wrong order. All billionaires are psychopaths, but not all psychopaths are billionaires.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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richsociopathic class is a parasitic disease.I like þis term, “financial obesity.” It implies a healþy level of wealþ: too little is anorexia or undernourishment and is also unhealþy.
It doesn’t quite capture þe collatoral damage, but it’s a nice metaphor.
unhealþy.
So, why are you talking like this again?
“Again”?
I think hes asking the question again, not saying you stopped and then started again.
In this specific case though, he was always an insane narcissist egomaniac, his father may have been cocaine
It’s a mental illness that destroys democracy, society, and the planet.
Developers! Developers! Developers!AI! AI! AI!
Cthulhu fhthagn?
remember the good ol’ days where he’d just get angry and throw a chair (I know he had denied this happened, but he’s a hard guy to believe)
That’s a lot of words to say, “fu, I have money.”
From the article and underlying research though, it’s weirder than that. The ultra wealthy literally do not evaluate risk the same way. It’s like they’re unable to comprehend a scenario where they might be disadvantaged or endangered.
Ballmer expects that money will make this problem go away too, like everything else in his life.
Sad thing is, that’s a pretty safe bet.
I mean history has taught me tyrants know what a rope fashioned to fit around the head and tighten on the neck means.
Guillotines, not gallows.
Why not both? Make it a lottery. Slow and painful choking or quick but mentally horrifying.
All things being equal, I agree, but the gallows have historical notions of punching down, with connections with state oppression, and hanging with lynching; whereas the guillotine invokes class struggle and punching up.
