There is something fundamentally wrong in their brain. Similar to a sociopath, or someone with autism. I believe there has to be a physical difference in the brain of someone who had that level of greed. Ask everyone you know personally what they would do if they woke up and had 500 million dollars in the bank. You hear a lot of interesting ideas and cool things to do. What I havent heard once is someone telling me a plan on how they would turn that 500 million dollars into a billion. That is because a normal brain doesnt think like that. A billionaire is fundamentally wrong, they are never happy with the amount of money they have. If they were, they would never reach a billion dollars.
Just a note, sociopaths aren’t physiologically different from other people by default, you’re thinking of psychopaths.
Sociopathy develops as a coping mechanism to extreme circumstances and trauma, (where someone’s brain determines the only way they’d be safe is to dampen empathetic responses) psychopathy develops as a result of a differently-wired brain where their brain out the gates struggles with a lot of what we consider to be foundational social and empathetic processes.
Trauma -does- change the structure of the brain, but if you’re trying to compare it to autism as an example of people born with different brains out the gates, it’s better to distinguish between sociopathy and psychopathy.
Agreed. It's like being a hoarder. They interweave their belongs, in this case their bank account, with their identity. Psychology tells us that once someone has internalised something and consider it an identity, it's very difficult to change their view.
My theory is that they've become so used to not having to struggle or worry about anything that life has become nothing more than a game to them, and the points are measured in money. All they care about is winning the game so having more money than anyone else means they're "winning".
Lmao, my autism means there’s something fundamentally wrong with me? Just throwing us in with sociopaths and soulless billionaires casually to make your point? Fuck you too.
They’d get rid of us if they could. I respect that you want to, but I wouldn’t worry about being the bigger person anymore, this administration in particular has been driving towards eradicating us even more. We need to vehemently push back on this shit at every opportunity.
It means there is a fundamental error in the brain, like anyone with neurodivergence. Like my ADHD, or my dad's OCD, or a sociopath, or a psychopath. They are all problems in the wiring of the brain. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you, or anyone born with neurodivergence, but to pretend there is not something wrong in the brain is naive. My uncle remarried to a lady that had a son with severe autism. He could not talk or dress himself. If a doctor had a way to fix what was happening in his brain that caused this she would have done anything to make it happen. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with him as a person, but there absolutely was something fundamentally wrong with his brain that caused his symptoms.
Every single fucking time someone has some opinion on autism, they love to bring up their uncles dads cousins grandmas sisters lawn care guy’s half-brother’s nonverbal autistic child as the reason autism is “something wrong with us”. You are literally speaking to someone, right now, that is a fully functioning adult. What’s wrong with me then? What makes me lesser than you? Autism has its disadvantages, but we have plenty of advantages over you as well. As is the case with every type of human being. Neurotypical people hide behind passive aggressive half-truths, sugarcoat, disrespect personal space constantly, speak in metaphor and hints when they need something instead of being direct, I could go on and on, are far worse at pattern recognition-based skills, BUT that’s not every neurotypical person. You have your pros and cons. So do we. The only difference is, we spend our entire lives catering to neurotypicals and their illogical social constructs, being ostracized and shunned for not putting off subconscious body language signals and correct vocal tone, and you can’t put any more thought into understanding us than “lol there’s an autistic kid I know he can’t even talk”. And it’s not even like it’s that hard, we’re literal and direct, allistics just cannot bother to listen instead of going off what “vibes” they pick up when they misinterpret us. There’s plenty of allistics I know that are absolute fucking morons. Don’t speak on something you clearly do not understand. Y’all love speaking for us; I don’t want to be fixed. I want allistics to bother trying.
100% this. It's getting really old being lumped in with someone who had 0 support, which likely lead to MAJOR setbacks in their development.
BTW, to anyone reading this comment, a lot of times, the "nonverbal autistics" everyone seems to love to reference, are just people who didn't receive any support for their autistic traits as children.
I was nonverbal until I was 8 years old, but thankfully, I received the support I needed to develop. I now am a VERY well off adult who merely acts a bit different and obsesses about code and electronics. Don't speak for us, we learned to speak while y'all were making fun of us, and the things we've learned to speak about are usually on a whole different level of understanding than the average bear. We don't just research, we obcess and breathe it until we understand.
Right, it's "wrong" because it doesn't fit into what society wants. Cept, a LOT of the technology you have today wouldn't work without neurodivergent people maintaining it.
Not saying we're the ONLY ones, bit we're VERY over represented in technical fields.
Your language is extremely fast and loose and you frankly seem unqualified to discuss it with the confidence you are sharing here. Frankly this subject is developing as we speak at lightning speed, even people who went to school 10 years ago can be out of date. This is not opinion, this is developing from empirical data and I'm really not comfortable with your use of terms like "wrong" which is a cultural more not any sort of clinical term or description.
You are not qualified and you are causing harm here
Yes, but would they do it when it's actually time to hand over the money?
When you get accustomed to nice things it's hard to revert back. I think of it like gaining fat cells. You lose weight but without keeping an eye on it, your body trues to revert back to your largest size.
They find endless ways to "need" it.
Lots of things to maintain. Out of pocket healthcare. Supporting multiple generations of family and close trusted employees. They are basically the combo of a private resort (for privacy and family) and a corporation with multiple layers of staff.
You can get paranoid with people constantly hitting you up, accusing you of things, parasocial fans, etc.
And of course, being rich doesn't mean you know how to spend money, you can still go broke, become an addict, get very sick, and on.
So over time, it's easy to isolate and insulate from others and get to a point where you exist in a bubble with other people with money, who by and large will skew fiscally and mostly conservative.
I think you are on to something! Adding to your thoughts, I think these people have different phenotypes where the money and power they accrue is intoxicating. This literally physically changes their brains, similar to addicts. What if the phenotype expressed makes them more susceptible?
Christian Bale is a different breed, literally. He avoided the intoxication and uses his powers for good. We aught to continue to elevate these stories.
I generally agree with you, but I’d also say that it’s not only insanely ambitious people like Musk and Bezos who seem to have something wrong with him. Ordinary people who have had their “big break” seem to also break their brains once they reach a certain level of affluence. Notch and JK Rowling come to mind.
I imply nothing about how a billionaire distributes their wealth. What I described is a brain exercise to do with yourself and everyone you know to find out what you would do if you had 500 million dollars.
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u/thexDxmen Apr 24 '26
There is something fundamentally wrong in their brain. Similar to a sociopath, or someone with autism. I believe there has to be a physical difference in the brain of someone who had that level of greed. Ask everyone you know personally what they would do if they woke up and had 500 million dollars in the bank. You hear a lot of interesting ideas and cool things to do. What I havent heard once is someone telling me a plan on how they would turn that 500 million dollars into a billion. That is because a normal brain doesnt think like that. A billionaire is fundamentally wrong, they are never happy with the amount of money they have. If they were, they would never reach a billion dollars.