I heard when you’re rich enough, everyone wants you for your money. I read wealth can literally change your brain too. (Not posting the article because it was basically an ad for one of the most expensive mental hospitals in the world, and I didn’t finish reading it.)
I’m mostly asking this for your judgements and reasoning of how rich our favorite treat-producing celebrities can be before you personally feel they’re no longer good people… I’m not sure what I mean by the word “good.” At some point they’re the CEO of their own empire, right? When does the addiction to being a liberal defending right wing abuse eventually become part of the riches?
None because I’d funnel the excess to organizing just like a lot of us already do.
It’s not just the amount of money a person has, it is their relation to production and how they have interfaced with society at large. A committed communist that wins the lotto doesn’t stop being a communist. But the other person that makes themselves a millionaire is pretty likely to have done so through exploitation, like owning a business, or has inherited it from an even richer family member and was raised in that culture. Bourgeois climber-ism doesn’t just infect the rich, either. “Hustle culture” is basically a farcical emulation of bourgeois ideology, of course it usually just means a person is exploiting themselves for others even more, but it teaches them a psychology of cynical self-interest.
The person that becomes a billionaire over time through owning businesses is someone that woke up every day and chose power and further enrichment over doing anything else at all. Every day, they choose that power over feeding the children, over housing every person. And they are politically active in their class, ensuring permanent indebtedness of the population, preventing things like sufficient healthcare in order to make their line go up. These are beasts of capital. They are rich through their relations to production, their ruthless self-interest and callousness to everyone else. To liberalism, those rich appear “changed” by the money, not their underlying approach to getting it.