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by keybored 591 days ago
Dreaming of winning the lottery and Going On Permanent Yacht Vacation is precisely the difference between being a worn out low-level worker and being a high-level executive who has all their needs met (or at least has the resources to have them met). With the latter you can have enough resources for you next ten generations and still go to work and optimize shareholder profits while thinking to yourself that you are serving a higher purpose.
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you are not wrong, but I don't think that is necessarily a huge criticism.
Criticism? What would be the point in that? Where did I imply that such a personality type can absorb criticism?
criticism isnt always for the benefit of the target.

Are you not critical of that "personality type"? What point are you trying to make?

The average person enjoys villainizing those who they see as somehow "above" them in standing, whether that's social, financial, or otherwise. They are of course incensed when the people "below" them do the same thing.