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haele

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5. Money. The Desire for Money is the Root of Most Evil

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 09:31 AM

Jun 18

It's not really a love, because it's more like work to a lot of people, but sucking up to a wealthy patron or boss for political favors is an ethical weakness as old as time and is as much a root of Evil as Greed, Lust, or Narcissism is.

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Floating this one in DU to find what everyone thinks about Dialogue, an exclusive organized society [View all] Baitball Blogger Jun 18 OP

Know the enemy? I don't know otherwise. Just the name Peter Thiel disgusts me. hlthe2b Jun 18 #1

Quelle surprise... GiqueCee Jun 18 #2

They do have some s'plaining to do. Baitball Blogger Jun 18 #3

An active general taking part in "Build-a-Cult" and "Build-a-Party" sessions sounds like a coup, to me muriel_volestrangler Jun 18 #4

Money. The Desire for Money is the Root of Most Evil haele Jun 18 #5

Peter Thiel is toxic and an anathema to democracy dlk Jun 18 #6

I'll give you what you want but Prairie_Seagull Jun 18 #8

Indeed dlk Jun 18 #11

Wired had a great story about this LearnedHand Jun 18 #7

I think the lady in the video is associated with wire. Baitball Blogger Jun 18 #10

When a crazy conservative billionaire gathers people for a meeting, it is not about doing good for the country. Midnight Writer Jun 18 #9