Everything is dependent on everything else, therefore "independent wealth" just means a degree of wealth which renders all natural obligations unenforcable in a one-sided fashion. It means you have no natural incentive to be social. No wonder wealth drives investment in force.
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Ignoring the question of whether the wealthy deserve their wealth, wealth itself is an epistemic bubble. It destroys one's ability to interpret information and respond to it.
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(This is probably true at scale too: as an american I expect I have a certain degree of insulation from the realities of global labor, just as the wealthy in this country are insulated from the realities of local labor)
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There's probably a blistering hot take in here somewhere. Something like "Wealth violates Kantian morality".
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