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John Tinker @[email protected] · 2026-08-10 · 21:12 UTC

Oligarchs have pleonexia: they take more than their fair share. That is the nature of their personality. We need to take it back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonexia
#democracy #oligarchy #pleonexia

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Max Gross @[email protected] · 2026-08-09 · 06:36 UTC

'Across the world we are witnessing unprecedented concentrations of economic, political and technological power. Wealth no longer simply buys luxury. Increasingly, it buys influence, access and the ability to shape public debate.'
#obscenewealth #killionaire #pleonexia #corruption #inequality #injustice #eattherich https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/obscene-wealth-money-and-political-power-accumulated-by-a-minuscule-few,21402

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John Tinker @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 12:52 UTC

@Dendrobatus_Azureus @bryan

I notice these things too. How to talk about it? I think of two things: how things are, and how we organize that information. As kids, we saw the world in a way that it really wasn't, but we saw it like that, anyway. Part of it must have been like that.

But the parts that weren't like that continued to develop with a life of their own.

Now they pop out like space alien babies from someone's belly.

What we took for privacy, is no more.
The part that was "the way things should be" becomes unreachable. The paradigm as a whole will fail when stressed beyond the breaking point of any part of it.

I wish to live in a world where "think for yourself" among the populace becomes a general hazard to the predatory classes.

I am moving to a simpler paradigm.

The way I am looking at it now, they are simply taking more than their fair share.

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." - A. Einstein

#pleonexia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonexia

#pleonexia

John Tinker @[email protected] · 2026-06-21 · 14:08 UTC

RE: https://sociale.network/@gubi/116776982204399935

The great switcheroo, when OpenAI became not open AI, has within it the whole schematic of how the selfish mind works, and how it feeds upon the society.

The oligarchs simply take more than their fair share. #oligarchy #democracy #pleonexia #vampires

#oligarchy #democracy #pleonexia #vampires

John Tinker @[email protected] · 2026-04-14 · 10:52 UTC

I may have discovered a word that is apparently missing from the English language.

Pleonexia is the condition of being greedy, based on an ancient Greek word. (Apparently greed is not new.)

Pleonectic is the adjective.

But what about the one exhibiting this characteristic? What do we can him, her, or it?

Pleonect seems like the obvious choice, but even Google has no prior awareness of the word. The Lumo chatbot thought it was a reasonable form, but had no evidence of its use.

Used in a sentence: Pleonects are enemies of humanity

Everyone already knows that greed is the main problem with human beings. But somehow they don't seem to register that the richest among us are, basically by definition, the worst cases.

Oligarchs, plutocrats, broligarchs, all of them, the pleonects, they should be ashamed of themselves.

There is no other way to say it. They take more than their fair share, and it is not taken from nothing.

Real zero-sum "games" do exist, in case anyone may be thinking that it is possible for the poorest to live, while the rich are partying. That the wealthy fly around in jets DOES make it more expensive for others to simply get to work.

No, those who take more than their share, take it from somewhere, from someone, and it is not right. There is a reason that we dislike pleonexia when we see it. It is odious.

It is shameful. We must point that out. Announce it to the world. Shine our lights on it.

That pleonects exist at all, tells us about our base nature, not about our humanity.

That they would rise in a society, is an index on the justice of the society.

That they inhabit the realms of social and political power, should set off all of the alarms.
#sociology #politics #politicalscience #pleonexia #vampires