It’s an addiction in the most literal sense of the word. Going after money is the most default of all possible goals, so it’s a way to avoid facing choices in life.

Money’s numerical, which means you can always in theory make a decision without having to think or feel. Bigger number = better choice.

Just like cocaine or video games or jerking off, it’s a way to get dopamine flowing without figuring anything out.

I’ve found that any time I actually emerge from poverty, I encounter a deep existential dread that’s basically covered up by the struggle. Because I don’t know what my next goal is after getting out of the pit.

So my subconscious finds a way to just fall back into the pit.

One solution to this is to view “more money” with the same urgency no matter how financially secure I am.

I don’t seem to be capable of that. I know it would be handy in some ways to be driven to always rise on the money ladder, but the thought of trying to awaken and cultivate that pattern in myself feels like more of a cost than a benefit.

Buy politicians so they can do more shit to make more money. Money is the end game

Mansions, supercars, yachts, maids, private chefs, expensive trips in their private airplanes. Those are the things that at least make sense. But then they start doing really stupid stuff like spending $45,000 for a light fixture in their house when most people have light fixtures that cost a hundred bucks. They buy T-shirts that cost $1200 just because of the label. They literally eat gold on $20,000 deserts that are powdered with gold dust and gold flake. They get bored of having everything they could ever want and start acting like fucking idiots. A normal person that has already had every single desire they've ever had met would start looking to benefit the less fortunate. Not these fucks. Instead they put diamonds on the soles of their shoes and pursue even more money that they'll never be able to spend.

You think that's a lot, our brains can't even comprehend how much 200 billion actually is (bozos and tusk)

they buy politicians, buy things that make them more money, custom artisinal services, etc

Brag about it and use it as leverage for power. The money doesn't actually exist, it's stock mostly that gets instantly created from nothing. But they can use the idea of its existence to take other people's real money for the things they want and the rest is just other people agreeing to do what they want because of the idea of power that having it conveys.

Haven't you heard? They create jobs with it! So many jobs! (/s)

Clearly we have not been good enough pirates. Time to sail the high seas!

I hope this is true, because the bullshit we are fed is that they earn those incomes by their performance. This would be an obvious slap in the face for that argument.

I know it's all bullshit, but it's nice to have direct evidence that it's bullshit.

Rooster Teeth leadership and their top talent made many mistakes on their own that contributed to its demise.

Stretching here, maybe trying to imply the raise comes due to cutting jobs or raises of lower level employees.

He can give himself a 25% raise worth several tens of millions of dollars which he made thanks to the hard work of the employees at WB, but these employees get next to nothing during a time where every basic needs like food and shelter are increasingly expensive.

A big part of that money should go to the employees.

I understood it to be mocking the headline's passive tone. The CEO is the one with much of the power to increase their own pay in a company, but the article is talking about it like some unknown magical entity just gifted this guy with $50 million.

And I think it's also combined with the general sentiment that anyone making that much is stealing from workers.

From a communist lens, the money to give the CEO a raise is the value of labor that workers provided, taken by the CEO instead of shared among the workers who provided it.

So (from that lens) the money going to the CEO is being stolen from the workers, the money is the car in the analogy. But the headline is framing the situation as "X got this thing worth a lot" without considering where the value came from.

Workers whose labor value have been stolen are like a person whose car was stolen, waking up to a positively-framed article about someone else receiving the stolen goods.

I think someone misinterpreted the Discovery network name, thinking it meant he found it. That was my initial impression.

Wood chippers require energy and can be expensive. A guillotine is rather easy to make, requires no electricity and is easy to build from things at hand for everyone.