Hoarding/Billionaires

Definition of hoarding Merriman Webster

1a : the practice of collecting or accumulating something (such as money or food) The hoarding and misuse of resources was uncommon even in times of natural disaster …— Tanvi Nagpal

1b : something that is hoarded —usually plural Inside the net with us was a large brown paper bag, spewing forth the Halloween hoardings of the child in the gorilla suit …— John Irving

2: psychology : the compulsion to continually accumulate a variety of items that are often considered useless or worthless by others accompanied by an inability to discard the items without great distress  
Hoarding is marked by an overwhelming desire to collect items and an inability to discard things that may seem useless, to such a point that the collections cause stress and start impacting a person's health, career or relationships.— Erin Allday  

People justify hoarding as curating and recycling, deeming odd objects beautiful and useful.— Peter D. Kramer

Television has programs where people go into houses and clean out everything the hoarders have accumulating, filling every spare space. The hoarder is considered to have some kind of mental problem. We are not talking about people who have collections say of stamps, Hummels, keys, pens etc., but people who have more stuff than they could ever use in a lifetime.

Why then don't we consider billionaires and some millionaires hoarders with a problem too? 

I am not talking about people who make enough money for a comfortable life. There is nothing abnormal about wanting a nice home or maybe even a second home? 

But what is wrong with Jeff Bezos that not only does he have several homes (and there could be some justification of having more than one, with his different centers of business) but one with 25 toilets?

Does the man have prostrate problems? Or is he merely a hoarder with better taste?

I don't deride anyone building a successful business. I do deride those that do it on the backs of others and continues to build their hoard as others are missing basic necessities despite working as hard or harder than the hoarder.

And many of these billionaires have a way of showing the only way they think is a screaming of "mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine,
mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine,mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine..." as they suck up resources they can't possible use, often destroying lives of others in their process.

Yet because they are  they are the "successful" that people look up to them. 

It depends on the definition of success.

If it is being a hoarder of resources that others need and could use and are willing to work for them too but can't because of the hoarder, no, they are not a success. They are a parasite on the planet despite their claims of providing jobs. If success is measured in terms of contributions to humanity, than some (not all) are failures. 

I think we should start looking at these people, irresponsible billionaires as having a psychological problem. Maybe they could even be a television program on helping to get back to normal.  

Meanwhile let's feel sorry for them but not to the problem of a gofundme listing.

My husband has a dueling blog at http://lovinglifeineurope.blogspot.com/2020/04/hoarders.html