Addicted to money

When someone has stolen billions why does he go on stealing more?

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Often he is a ruler, despot, autocrat.

Whatever name we call him by he is a thief.
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The question that intrigues me is this:
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Why when he has stolen more than he and his direct descendants for untold generations could possibly ever spend or use does he go on stealing?
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Why does he not do something to improve the place he runs?
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Why does he not improve the lives of his people?
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Build some infrastructure
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Some new schools
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Improve the arts
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Create a nicer fairer society.
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At  least do something to be remembered by other than crude theft?
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The answer it seems is that he is addicted, 
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At a certain point it appears money addicts people,
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A fear of having none or losing it all might have been true early on.
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However after the first hundred million or so something changes.
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Money becomes numbers.
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Often it has no meaning as many mega rich are also very mean.
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Not just with others but also often with themselves.
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Seeing the inside of their lives one scratches ones head at the poverty on display.
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A poverty of imagination.
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Poverty of art in any shape or form.
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A poverty of texture, colour, life even.
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A distinct poverty of life energy present around them and their possessions.
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Their houses and homes containing all the latest and most expensive toys.
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And yet nothing personal.
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You might as well be in a five star hotel, and in essence this is what they are.
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Empty trophies to their power and money.
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And the addiction?
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Just wanting more ever more and never stopping.
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And because money is merely an energy these people often get cancer.
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Why?
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Because if you block energy (money) then it will bite you.
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One way or another karma creates the situation where your refusal to let it flow is adjusted.
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Money addiction is not one to enter into lightly.
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Simply because like all addictions you do not win.
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Add in paranoia and you have a poor life.
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Maybe it is simpler still.
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Once embarked upon their life of theft they cannot stop.
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The cronies around them ensure this.
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A web of corruption  devouring all in its path.
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The only way to stop it is to destroy it.
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And that is just what happens finally to all those who fit this pattern
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Look around the world now from Libya to Syria and many other countries beyond.
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And if we want to be less politically correct how about Wall Street and the rest of them?
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The same addiction is there as well.