• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I want wealth to be an indicator of a well-rounded member of society, instead of its current role as a proxy for sociopathy.

    Also, how about relabelling excessive financial accumulation as something along the lines of ‘financial obesity’.

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      Obesity used to be a sign of wealth, and confer higher social status. So oligarchs would be introduced as “the biggest, the fattest, the most corpulent of them all, Richie Apartheington!”