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In reply to the discussion: Do you think billionaires ever feel like this? [View all]IbogaProject
(5,579 posts)But I'd also bet even the philanthropic ones would scorn that person assuming he made mistakes to end up in his position.
Both Buffet and Gates had very significant advantages, so neither of them was truly "self made". But many of those Billionaires, and many with 10 or more million, just keep them selves as far as they can from any situation where they have to feel compassion. I think they spin a fantasy that their privileged and success was all deserved or earned. They have no concept of the damage of childhood hunger and the harm of being exposed to adults coping with poverty or other problems with alcohol and or drugs. I was taught to up my empathy by reminding myself this person was a kid once and it all went awry for them, maybe even in childhood.