A person with an anxiety disorder remains a moral actor! It would be ableist to suggest otherwise. And everyone I have ever met makes better choices about how they express anxiety than any billionaire I have heard of. But the patterns match, and knowing the enemy can be of some value.

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Not remotely! The big difference between a cat hoarder and a wealth hoarder is that the former tops out at harming the number of cats they personally interact with, whereas an arbitrarily large number of persons and other creatures are forced to suffer scarcity to imbue “billions” with meaning.

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Losing Texas is the song of the autumn

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I will never condone it either, but anxiety disorders are frequent enough in the circles of my family and friends that I manage to understand billionaires’ behavior toward money decently well by analogy to other types of hoarders’ behavior toward cats, old newspapers, and deeply discounted products.

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California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

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