The point I was responding to was claiming rich people lose their ability to self-regulate. You are posting about them being mean, more narcissistic and more greedy.
The point I was responding to was claiming rich people lose their ability to self-regulate. You are posting about them being mean, more narcissistic and more greedy.
>> posting about them being mean, more narcissistic and more greedy.
Traits they exhibit plenty more, than the general population: "The “Why” and “How” of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit" - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6970445/
https://youtu.be/bJ8Kq1wucsk?t=310
https://youtu.be/bJ8Kq1wucsk?t=371
Bankman-Fried — FTX -> misuse of billions in customer money for investments, influence, political contributions and personal interests despite enormous wealth.
Bill Hwang — Archegos -> extreme risk-taking, market manipulation and deception that ultimately imposed billions in losses on banks.
Alex Mashinsky — Celsius -> personal profit from token sales while customers were misled and ultimately left unable to access billions in assets.
Bernie Madoff -> massive Ponzi fraud sustained for years despite already having wealth, status and an elite financial reputation.
R. Allen Stanford — Stanford Financial -> diverted billions from investors to finance his businesses and lifestyle despite extraordinary existing wealth.
Leona Helmsley — Helmsley Hotels -> billionaire convicted of tax evasion and fraud involving personal luxury expenses. The sentencing judge explicitly described the conduct as motivated by "naked greed" and an arrogant belief that she was above the law.
Elizabeth Holmes — Theranos -> maintained sweeping false claims to investors while building a company valued in the billions, resulting in hundreds of millions invested on false premises.
Trevor Milton — Nikola -> repeatedly exaggerated his company's technology and achievements to stimulate investor demand and support its stock price.
Karl Sebastian Greenwood — OneCoin -> helped sell a fictitious cryptocurrency to millions of victims who invested more than $4 billion while he personally received hundreds of millions.
Miles Guo — GTV / investment schemes -> former billionaire convicted of using lies and misrepresentations to extract more than $1 billion from followers
Do Kwon — Terraform Labs -> deception surrounding a huge crypto ecosystem that culminated in roughly $40 billion in losses
Joseph Lewis — Tavistock Group -> billionaire who admitted abusing confidential corporate information by tipping friends, employees and romantic partners, while his company separately admitted securities fraud involving concealed share ownership.
Elon Musk — X -> Changed the platform algorithm after Biden posts outperformed his, massively increasing exposure of Musk own posts.
Jeff Bezos — Venice -> turned his 2025 wedding into a three-day billionaire spectacle that prompted protests over the privatization and commodification of the city.
Mark Zuckerberg — Meta -> commissioned and publicly displayed a giant Roman-style statue of his wife while simultaneously building one of America most extraordinary private compounds.
Bryan Johnson — Blueprint -> turned his own body into a multimillion dollar anti-aging project, including receiving plasma from his teenage son in an unsuccessful rejuvenation experiment.
Larry Ellison — Oracle -> built a personal real-estate empire including ownership of 99% of a Hawaiian island
Then you have the Narcissistic in Chief: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...