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tblue37

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10. It is a form of hoarding, just like people with so much stuff in their houses that they can't

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:31 PM

Mar 25

move around in them or live in them, or people whose living space is taken up completely by their collections of this or that.

Hoarding is what happens when a normal human instinct to save up for future scarcity gets completely out of whack, going to extremes and/or focusing on inappropriate things.

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I don't understand the quest for money. [View all] LuckyCharms Mar 25 OP

I agree. LoisB Mar 25 #1

Some rich people never have enough money, even if they already have more than they could spend Ocelot II Mar 25 #2

It's an illness. Some horde newspapers and cbabe Mar 25 #3

I think that's it. Also, they consider it "keeping score" -- I have more $$$ than you, therefore I'm better than you. eppur_se_muova Mar 25 #5

personal values Norrrm Mar 25 #4

I could not agree more Grim Chieftain Mar 25 #6

It's a hoarding disorder. They're as sick as the kinds of hoarders who sleep in the Scrivener7 Mar 25 #7

As The Boss says Delarage Mar 25 #8

Money and coke..... multigraincracker Mar 25 #9

It is a form of hoarding, just like people with so much stuff in their houses that they can't tblue37 Mar 25 #10

Ask all the rich creeps in the Epstein files. Money bought them power, Marie Marie Mar 25 #11

I think there's a different reason people want more money LogDog75 Mar 25 #12

Money can't buy happiness. LudwigPastorius Mar 26 #13

One thing that always stands out with the rich is that they never seem truly satisfied. Totally Tunsie Mar 26 #14

It is a sickness like hoarding Marthe48 Mar 26 #15