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Billionaires are playing cookie clicker with our lives.
You joke, but that's close to how the rich see money. It's a score keeping device.
I'd love to say so, but I wasn't joking.
The goal is power, and one way to attain it, is to render everyone else powerless
and why shouldn't people be allowed to play games they find fun?
For the same reason that kids shouldn't be allowed to play games dropping rocks on moving cars.
It's also worth noting that we could also use/abuse this tendency, for the greater good. Imagine if rich lists etc were done entirely via tax returns. If you don't pay taxes, you're considered poor. It provides the hyper rich with a new way of comparing themselves, via actualised wealth rather than paper/virtual money.