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      16 hours ago

      Yes, you are right, money hoarders are much worse than useless shit hoarders. Useless shit hoarders only hurt themselves and maybe their family. Money hoarders hurt literally everyone in the society, including (ultimately) themselves. They are different (though related) mental health issues which need to be addressed differently.

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      You’d call me crazy if I stuffed my house full of gasoline or batteries. It wouldn’t matter if I called them “universal energy storage”.

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        17 hours ago

        Doesn’t matter. Hoarding money and hoarding newspaper isn’t the same. Because as long as we live in capitalism money gets you everything, while newspapers don’t.

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            16 hours ago

            It doesn’t matter in relation to my comment.

            Hoarding something that is more useful the more you have, makes more sense then hoarding something that isn’t more useful the more you have.

            Mental disorder or not.

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              16 hours ago

              Billions of dollars isn’t useful. They can’t possibly spend all their money in their lifetime even buying megayachts and shit.

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                Completely flawed logic.

                Just because you can’t spent all in your lifetime doesn’t mean it’s useless in your lifetime.

                They spent the money to shape the world in their image. They don’t have to stress about food or shelter, and so on and so on.

                How is that not useful?

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                    Flawed logic again.

                    Just because they could do it als millionaire doesn’t make it not useful as billionaire.

                    Quite the opposite, as more money means more power. And more power is more useful.

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                  Omg thats exactly what is horrendous. How can society exist peacefully if its always contorting itself to some hoarders will?

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                    Maybe if the hoarder with the most money wants a peaceful society otherwise it most definitely can’t.

                    But the older I get the more I think a peaceful society isn’t possible at all. People are just to different and everybody wants others to understand them while not being willing to understand someone else.