I was chatting with with my bro today. I asked “how do you just - do that heinous shit?” I remarked that I could never do what they did to those people if i got rich and powerful.
He’s like “you sure? How do you know you wouldn’t?”
And the more i think about it, I’m not so sure. Are we all just monsters forced to be good by the status quo? Are we brainwashed to be good? Is being evil the best way to live and we’re all just suckers?
I honestly feel sick thinking about the implications.
How can good ever win? What the hell can we do?
Sorry for the cringy rant but I’m pretty broke up about it.
What you need to understand is that the people who became rich didn’t just win the lottery one day. The whole capitalist system is built to reward people with the kind of personality that these people have. They’re sharks. They will take advantage and abuse others and do whatever is necessary to gain power and leverage over others. That’s why THEY are rich and YOU AREN’T. Because they’re psychopaths. ( Look it up. )
So you can rest easy. If you got rich like that one day, because of your personality and life experience, and mostly because you have a conscience and empathy for others, you wouldn’t end up like these monsters.