Billionaires are Just as Trapped in the Rat Race as Everyone Else
Billionaires may be treated like gods but they are motivated by fear
The rat race. It begins with your alarm jolting you out of deep sleep. You crawl out of bed and wince as you’re blinded by lights your eyes weren’t prepared for. You get blasted by a cold wind as you open your front door onto a cold, dark morning. You battle to get onto a packed train. You get into work and have the same dreary conversations with people you don’t like. You do the same meaningless job, over and over again.
No one wants to be part of the rat race. And yet, no one can live without it. The reason you choose to get out of bed, get crushed on a train, and have those dreary conversations is the fear of the consequences of not doing so. If you don’t work, you can’t afford to pay rent. Maybe you’re locked into a 25-year mortgage. You’ve got bills to pay, a family to provide for, you get the idea.
People don’t work because they want to. They work because they have to. This is the cage of necessity we all live within. You can choose not to do all the things you don’t want to do, but the consequences will be a life of poverty and desperation.
No one wants that.
You would imagine a way to escape the rat race is to get rich. Having enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your days is a ticket out of the humdrum of the cage of necessity. It frees people from the fear of the consequences of not working.
Rich beyond their wildest dreams
There are now 2755 billionaires out of a population of nearly 8 billion people. Billionaires are the richest 0.00003% of society. They are a rare breed indeed. If they were an animal, they would be an endangered species.
So unique this breed of people are that they have ascended to some promised land and are treated like deities; gods amongst mere mortals.
Because social success is defined by having more money and possessions than anyone else, billionaires are by default considered some of the most important people in the world.
To put their wealth into perspective, if someone had $1 billion (a pittance in this…
