• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    But how else will they get a bigger house? Nicer, larger yacht? More private jets?

    Like, I kinda understand the “more more more!” mentality. As my income has gone up over the years, there’s always something more my monkey brain tells me I should want. A nicer, more comfortable car. A new video card. Two angry ponies. You know how it is. I tell it to shut up because I have more than enough already.

    I’m not a sociopath, though, so at no point has my monkey brain told me to enslave others so I can have nicer stuff.

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        5 months ago

        Little Grandpa story time:

        Ponies are generally nicer than horses, but I was raised believing ponies were angry, vicious little assholes. My father was bucked off of a pony in his twenties, causing him to break a rib and paralyze half of his diaphragm. Being the actual asshole in this story, he never stopped to think that maybe he was too heavy and too drunk for a pony, so he spread pony hate throughout his life. I want angry ponies as I dislike my father and on a primal level think they’d keep me safe from people like him, like two pissy, grass eating charms to protect against narcissists.