And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

-William Gibson, Count Zero, 1986

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    We have scientific evidence that high wealth kills your empathy and makes you essentially into a pseudohuman driven only by the darkest parts of our psyches. But since those people are also the ones that make the rules, nothing will ever change.