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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
most likely those 'ultra liberal internet intellectuals' who did make bank became 'ultra conservative selfish pricks' as this is what money tends to do to people. they think if they made it then everyone should be able to and if they can't they should be tossed to lions.
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Of the truly wealthy people I've met, most are actually ultra-liberals. That may stem from the fact that most of them are in New York... but from the small sample of my own experience, it seems to me that young liberals become more conservative when they are barely rich... and much more liberal than they ever had been if they become wealthy (with the exception of trustfunders who are almost always ultra-conservative).
When you make a million dollars you want desperately to hang onto it... when you make a billion dollars it's more like 'points' than 'money' and you are unlikely to ever be able to spend more than the interest it earns anyway. So, it 'costs' you virtually nothing at that point to do what you thought was actually 'right' all along.