Too Much Is Never Enough 0
George Monbiot explores the reasons why the persons who have everything keep wanting more. For example:
As the immensely rich HL Hunt commented several decades ago: “Money is just a way of keeping score.”
The desire for advancement along this scale appears to be insatiable. In March Forbes magazine published an article about Prince Alwaleed, who, like other Saudi princes, doubtless owes his fortune to nothing more than hard work and enterprise. According to one of the prince’s former employees, the Forbes magazine global rich list “is how he wants the world to judge his success or his stature”.
The result is “a quarter-century of intermittent lobbying, cajoling and threatening when it comes to his net worth listing”.