The Trouble With Privilege

The Trump Family is the poster child for what happens to people's brains when they are privileged.

While most humans on the planet suffer from the effects of being underprivileged, the Trumps, and likely many of their supporters, plow through life like a hibernating bear whom just woke up and is ready to eat.

For these people, the question comes down to "what's enough" and the answer is, "nothing is ever enough". 

Some chemical response must go off in their brain that says "I must get more" at every instant.  For them, greed is like heroin.  Nothing is ever enough.  No amount of "stuff" can satisfy, and perhaps the idea of taking something away from the truly needy becomes the one motivator that grants them some level of accomplishment and well-being.

Whatever it is, I am very glad my brain is a functioning unit, I haven't got any desire to make people miserable or unhappy, and if I can share some part of what I have every single day with someone less fortunate than I am, then I enjoy a level of satisfaction the privileged seem to miss.  Granted, it is small, what I can give.  By comparison, it is so large what people with Privileged Brain Dysfunction can take that there will always be a monumental gap in living conditions for all of us.

I honestly laugh at the New York Time's advertisements hawking $30,000 necklaces and $10,000 handbags.  I don't laugh because the items themselves are ludicrous (although they are), but because someone will actually buy them as a way to express and expose their privilege.  The thirty-five million dollar apartment (all cash deal) will store all these items quite nicely.

I'll never be rich.  It's okay with me.  The wealth I do possess is a wealth I don't think I'll ever lose, mainly because I'm not possessed by it, nor does it have much value to anyone else.  But to me, it is everything.  It is knowing I can survive in a world stacked against people like me.  Not only survive, but thrive as a human being with full knowledge of the qualities most important to the human experience.  And you can't buy that.  The vermin in the White House are absolute proof.