There's a fair amount of evidence that hoarding makes people more selfish and obnoxious. And we know that lottery winners commit suicide at a meaningfully higher rate than other people. But this goes back to your earlier point, which is that so many cultures see hoarding as the primary sinio. So once you hoard, right, it's going to make you an essal.
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, that actually happened to media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Today on the show he explains why the 0.01 percent are obsessed with escaping climate change, global pandemics, political upheaval ... and us.
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