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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Its always been that way too. But I can barely understand why anyone would want to be a nexus for all human activity, ambition is one thing and perhaps some vision but it isn't very rational in the long run. Transition of power ends up being pretty relaxing and beautiful too. Just inspire people to achieve some goals, cut away a role or a person that gets too big headed/conspiratorial and slowly let the initiative develop. Everything is a simulation so watch the variables interact/evolve.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree. I think the people that do these things are psychologically addicted to the acquisition of power. Greed, in other words.

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Honestly though, greed ends up being its own punishment. Like imagine if you had all this greed and got billions of dollars, and then you're living large in your own personal world full of luxuries. But the real world does not compare and keeps gnawing away at you, within the edges of your mind- issues like poverty, hunger, bullying and injustices of all sorts.

Well at some point, you'll end up wanting to ameliorate these issues; because if you don't, then your personal world is going to get affected and won't last. So you start by throwing some of your money at these issues in an effort to solve it, but things are marginally improving, or at least the numbers say they are improving but people aren't too keen on it. So what you end up at, is a little frustrated because some numbers are telling you one thing, but opposition keeps building against you and your actions. Finally, you decide to go all out and campaign hard by putting up huge fortunes against many of these problems- only to find out that the problem with people, was not money at all.

It was perception (or lack of). An inborn ignorance that was not corrected. The real solution never involved acquiring much power or being greedy. It was to practice and remind the world that hardships have to be endured and that toughness is your only birthright with meditation being ample luxury. That's it lol. So along those lines of thought, narcissists may end up pretty weak, flabby or disappointed due to their greed (possibly).