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[toomuchtodo]

No, I strongly disagree with this. Wealth does not change you, it amplifies who you already were.

Examples: Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott

[xlbuttplug2 → toomuchtodo]

I was more referring to the idea that the journey to attain such wealth requires you to lose a part of yourself along the way.

[montagg → xlbuttplug2]

> This presumes these folks had that part to lose. Based on all available evidence, I don’t believe they had the empathy, compassion, or emotional health in the first place. Even after climbing the mountain, they can’t stop, they can’t help themselves. It’s just how they’re wired.

Those are basically the same thing though. Acquiring extreme wealth filters out people with empathy; they either never had it or lost it.

[toomuchtodo → xlbuttplug2]

This presumes these folks had that part to lose. Based on all available evidence, I don’t believe they had the empathy, compassion, or emotional health in the first place.

Even after climbing the mountain, they can’t stop, they can’t help themselves. It’s just how they’re wired. They don’t know what enough is or feels like.