Those are just the games they play when they have wealth beyond an imagination of that number being consequential. They don’t lose enough to change their status or power. Even when they spend it they just turn it into debt. The bank is happy at 3-5% interest and if you make 7-10% on that borrowed money then blowing the difference doesn’t impact you at all.
Except they also play those games when they’re the owner of a small company that can easily go bankrupt because of those games, or when they’re middle managers engaging in office politics that threatens their steady paycheck, or when they’re YUPpies working themselves into an early grave through the grindset, or when they’re working class and vote to dismantle working class safety nets.
Those are just the games they play when they have wealth beyond an imagination of that number being consequential. They don’t lose enough to change their status or power. Even when they spend it they just turn it into debt. The bank is happy at 3-5% interest and if you make 7-10% on that borrowed money then blowing the difference doesn’t impact you at all.
Except they also play those games when they’re the owner of a small company that can easily go bankrupt because of those games, or when they’re middle managers engaging in office politics that threatens their steady paycheck, or when they’re YUPpies working themselves into an early grave through the grindset, or when they’re working class and vote to dismantle working class safety nets.