Steve Thompson PhD on Nostr: People with great wealth and power get there by envying others and competing to have ...
People with great wealth and power get there by envying others and competing to have the most in life. They naively think that everyone else must want what they have without ever realizing that those of us without can see how their wealth and power corrupts them so that their positions and powers are actually highly undesirable.
They don't have a single thing that I want.
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