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For the wealthy to feel like they've won at life...people have to lose. If everyone was okay, then the wealthy couldn't feel superior to us.

And herein lies the problem with capitalism. It creates the greed that undermines the very system that allows it to exist. This cannot be escaped because it’s systemic.

To a rational person, there is such a concept as “enough”, but not to the capitalist.

Never, because once you get to the levels of obscenely wealthy that the modern elite inhabit, the actual amount stops mattering, but the drive to maintain and increase it gets far stronger. Thus, they spend insane amounts on political lobbying to ensure that the government doesn't collect any money from them in taxes. As for paying for things like infrastructure, they'll never do that because spending money on that doesn't IMMEDIATELY net them returns, even if it would in the long run (better schools directly correlate to smarter, more productive workers; better Healthcare means people spend less time sick and are back on the job sooner; improved transportation means workers are early or on time, so production isn't held back as much).

Furthermore, the Elite (as it were) literally don't see the rest of us as people worthy of compassion or respect, let alone any money. Pretty sure that some studies have been done showing that, over a certain level of wealth, your brain and personality shift noticeably towards sociopathy. It's not exactly a particularly high number either, from what I recall; only a few millions of dollars.

Billionaires and other rich people will never fix society's problems unless we literally force them to at threat of life and limb, and there's little point in believing otherwise.