@mekkaokereke @artcollisions i must be "no one", because i care about every single assumption you've just made.
but then, that's a common weakness of idealist and liberal analyses. because it's not about individuals, or anecdotes. it's about material conditions and systemic power dynamics. for you to be successful in today's world, it is a sine qua non condition that you have to be ignoring some folks' suffering. and to be a billionaire, to take that arbitrary example, you have to have accepted, a long time ago, to profit off of others' suffering. you can still be a polite lifeless vampire, but more often than not fascism tends to land closer to what the billionaires in these conditions end up aspiring to (and/or vice versa).