• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    St. Basil raged about this in the 300’s.

    I’ll have to look into that! My first thought was Jesus Himself also warning against it.

    “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” Mark 8:36

    They serve their greed, it becomes their god, and when the billions aren’t enough, it becomes about power and influence in world events. It never stops. They basically become the paperclip apocalypse machine for shareholder profits.

    Like someone else here who mentioned Tolkien: absolutely “dragon sickness.” We watched Thorin Oakenshield forsake his brethren and become a total bastard just to sit on a mountain of coins and stare at a pretty rock.

    These guys are the very same, just with their stonks.

    Somehow along the way, our societies evolved to serve the dragons, to elevate their madness and sociopathy to virtue. Like the wealth-hoarding, worker-eating monsters of old, they must be brought down.