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I always wondered if they do this stuff because they feel powerful or powerless.
Billionaires have a ton of power, an amount unimaginable to most people, but it probably also makes them acutely aware of how powerless a person is in the grand scheme of things.
Though maybe they’re just psychos
People at every level do this. It's just people being horrible people.
Your spoiler didn't work for me on kbin's main site - just a heads up. Maybe put the content warning at the start rather than after the spoiler? I'm not affected fortunately (though I am disgusted), but it might help others.
Agreed. I feel sick to my stomach and I don't even have any specific trauma in my experience that this would trigger.
If I were religious I'd ask for mercy from a higher power. Nobody deserves to experience what that poor person did. 😔
Apologies. I will do that.
Curb Your Enthusiasm has a character named Leon Black, and I thought that’s what this was talking about at first…