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Metaphorical

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2. Class Warfare
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:04 PM
Aug 2025

Yup. Most times, the rich kids really, really do not like for this to be called out, because it implies that they are not in fact exceptional in any way but being lucky enough to be born to the right parents. It's also why they are so f*cked up mentally as they get older - in all too many cases, fortunes are built by sociopaths who have absolutely no compunction about screwing others over if there's a profit in it for them, and when they pass those fortunes on to their kids, they also pass a huge amount of expectations that their kids will be even more ruthless than they were. You either run away from that pressure, or you become a narcissistic psychopath.

The danger that this class of sociopaths face is that the more obvious they are in their machinations, the more likely that people will have both the desire and ability to undercut their power base, and narcissists in particular have a great deal of difficulty remaining in the shadows. Trump's biggest problem is that he cannot stand being out of the limelight, and consequently tends to sabotage himself constantly. It's one of the reasons that most very wealthy people tend to keep VERY low profiles.

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