Microblog Memes

You're right, greed is a mental illness, and exactly the key mechanism here. It's the same underlying thing as hoarding, for the like - miserly greedy, especially.

But there's also this huge complicating factor of the sort of...spot on the spectrum one lands, usually at birth, between no_resources_available and all_resources_available.

Human brains, as they grow into adults, normalize their sort of "home life" circumstances - any understanding of those circumstances - how those compare with broader and broader "others", AKA how their growing up differs from other folks, and how that came to be?

By dint of biological development, the capacity for those thoughts, leaving aside merely hopeful exposure to them - that ability itself can only develop after the developmental points at which the burgeoning consciousness forms its baseline observations about what the world is. Ya dig?

It's something a lot worse than just the hoarding flavor fixated on money. It's mentally unhealable people raising people at such an extreme end of the resources_available spectrum as to make roughly all of them ~equivalently unhealable as a result. Generation after generation, worse and worse, just really baking in that "hole in one's humanity" unwellness.

Until ta-da! - something snaps, then a lotta things do, then a lotta extra heinous shit happens for a buncha years (by which I mean a lotta people suffer, die, and are forgotten), and eventually a whole lotta the world ends up with pretty different rubble and rules to try to reorganize around. Often some flavor of "second verse, same as the first" but yeah.

So IDK what to call it. We keep doing it, must be pretty cool stuff lol.