Game

[supergee]

Here’s the thing about men like David Koch: Making money is basically just a video game to them. For the rest of us, making money is about being able to pay for things we need and want, such as rent and food and actual video games. But David Koch has made so much money that he literally cannot spend it all. There is nothing he would want to buy he cannot already afford. The only purpose at this point in making more money is for the pleasure of beating your high score. In other words, it really is just a very consuming video game. But unlike when you kill people in Call of Duty or crush candies in Candy Crush, the game David Koch is playing is very real. Millions of people will suffer and die because he wants to “win” his video game by manipulating the public to avoid taking action on global warming. That is evil and hateful and selfish on a level that puts the word “selfish” to shame

--Amanda MarcotteThanx to Pandagon.

Comments

[bibliofile]

That's not a bad analogy....

[johnpalmer]

That's actually a very good point. Once you hit a certain level of funds, it really *is* a game, and people really *do* keep score. It doesn't really have any meaning.

What's really, really hideous about it is, if he slowly sold his carbon-stocks and invested in greenies, instead, he could probably make every bit as much, or more.