Hey, what's the difference between a hoarder and a billionaire?

[ck4829]

A hoarder tries to resist getting help with their disease of hoarding cats and newspapers.

A billionaire tries to resist getting help with their disease of hoarding more cash than they know what to do with but will happily spend some to lobby to make sure you don't get healthcare if you get cancer or MRSA as well.

[Shell_Seas]

1. Bill Gates has donated over $28 billion to charity.

[Merlot]

5. Some of his "charities" are political

such has the push to funding charter schools.

[Shell_Seas]

6. Funding charter schools? Do you mean school vouchers?

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Not much...

They both kinds get reality tv shows.

[greymattermom]

3. The difference is that Republicans think hoarding money is a wet dream.

And hoarding cat shit, maybe not. But who knows? With money, they call it "worth", and your number is your score, i.e. your worth. Maybe worth should be your accomplishments. Mine are quantified by the google scholar ap, so I can look at that number any time I want to. Maybe dollars contributed to charity, or hours volunteered should be a measure of worth, and folks could brag about that in public.

[Cary]

4. Obscene, excessive wealth is far more pernicious

Power corrupts.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. The French Revolution was caused by the Bourgeoisie converting money into political power.

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The problem was that they didn't have a plan beyond inciting the proletariat into revolution.

Afterwards, the entire chain of command collapsed and these wealthy instigators found themselves in hiding too.


We're seeing the same shit happening here. A bunch of rich fucks mucking up the works, without any long-term plan.

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[TheBlackAdder]

7. A comparison that I've often held, as there seems to be multiple DSM-V traits at hand.

[Igel]

9. What's the difference between a book collection and a library? n/t

[LanternWaste]

10. The one is mocked while the other is rationalized as success.

Humans and our odd penchant for letting imaginary constructs dictate our choices, behavior and lifestyles... and even hunger.