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Billionaires & Hoarders: Two Sides of the Same Greedy Coin

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Billionaires & Hoarders: Two Sides of the Same Greedy Coin Let’s play a little mental game. Close your eyes and imagine a hoarder. You know the type—stacked-up newspapers from 1983, broken appliances they swear they’ll fix, closets bursting with expired canned goods, and maybe a dozen cats running a shadow government in the basement. Now… picture a billionaire. Private jets? Check. Four yachts? Check. Enough wealth to solve world hunger twenty times over… and still complaining about taxes? Same behavior. Different zip code. The Absurd Similarities Between Billionaires & Hoarders On the surface, one smells like old pizza boxes and anxiety. The other smells like imported lavender from Provence and entitlement. But when you break it down, the behaviors mirror each other: Behavior Hoarder Billionaire Obsession with accumulation 137 empty lotion bottles 137 billion dollars Believes everything might “come in handy” Keeps 42 broken toasters Buys up 42 companies for “synergy” Can’t let...
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The Family Pyramid

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  The Family Pyramid Great Ujamaa: Continuing in the line of the discussion that we have had all week, I want to remind those that have been reading up to this point about the “The Family Pyramid”. You are sitting at the pinnacle or sat at the top of this pyramid at least until you had your own children. Now I want to explore what makes up this pyramid. This pyramid is made up of your living family, and your Ancestors. Your whole life is built upon those who came before you. Now I want to ask a simple question, what does that mean? Don’t just move by this question! I want you to really break down what this means for you, that the building blocks for all parts of your being are built upon those who came before you. In a sense others have sacrificed so that you can be on top, and you are now (metaphorically) standing upon them. Do you have a responsibility toward them? Is your life adequately reflecting the fact of your position on the pyramid, or are you just breathing air and hopin...
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