Comment by anon373839
17 hours ago
This comment seems needlessly insulting and also kind of obtuse?
I don’t think the GP meant that it’s impossible to dispose of a large amount of money. But it is effectively impossible to spend down a certain level of accumulated wealth by purchasing goods and services that any human being or their family could require to maintain even lavish standards of living.
The examples you gave are conversions of wealth to power, using money to reshape the world. Which, I think, is kind of the crux of the issue. Perhaps you were alluding to this at the end of your comment.
I think the actual snag though is that people genuinely believe that giving money to the government is the highest form of good.
Skirt taxes to give a billion dollars to prospective college kids through your own organization? Nice gesture, but still a greedy fuck who refuses to give up control.
Pay a billion in taxes that ends up mostly going to heavy administrative bloat? Give that guy sainthood.