Proxy Goal

Ironically, non-materialists appreciate their material stuff more than materialists. Some products, clothes, and stuff like tools that the former utilizes to facilitate goals are kept out of harm’s way and often cherished.

For others, obtaining a lot of what others value, or the currency to buy it has become the goal. The goal of materialism is to be rich.

We can only play with one toy at a time, eat one meal at a time, and drive one car or fly one plane or indulge on one yacht at a time. You might have a lot of them, but each one would add less than the last one to your quality of life. Eventually, more stuff would be meaningless and even be burdensome.

To many without a lot of money, finding $100 would change their day. It would not change the day of a millionaire.

A million dollars would not improve a billionaires day.

After your first billion, how’s the second billion going to improve your life?

Capitalism is anti-social and requires a continuous amount of money to maintain necessities like food and shelter. Some of us have to work harder than others to be able to live.

A civilization can be socially responsible and provide minimal necessities to avoid pointless suffering, such as the hordes of victims of income inequality. However, the wealthy don’t want to share the wealth that they obtained with the society that produced it. They don’t feel lucky. They’re rich because they deserve it, that they are entitled and better than everyone else, including the tax raising parasites whose work helped them get rich.

Other than control issues and greed and a screaming lack of imagination, they have no purpose and are strangers to fulfillment. That’s why they go for the second billion.

It’s time to raise some taxes.