When Have We Had Enough?

OPINION: One man never hits his limit. The rest of us are starting to wonder why we pretend we haven’t hit ours.

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There is a special kind of absurdity in watching someone who helped cripple the global reputation of the United States receive a one-trillion-dollar pay package, as news outlets are calling it.

A trillion. With a T. The kind of number that breaks calculators and common sense.

We are talking about a man who took a widely used communications platform and turned it into a misinformation carnival, the same man whose interventions in global conflicts have drawn allegations from observers and humanitarian organizations that he cut off access to vital communications used to coordinate deliveries of medicine and food. Those claims are disputed, and no one can point to a definitive casualty count, but the fact that these allegations exist says plenty about the moral vacuum he tends to operate in.

When the choices of a single billionaire can ripple into life-or-death stakes for ordinary people, something is badly off-kilter in the system.

Yet here he is, treated like an indispensable visionary. A man the market insists must be continually rewarded, no matter the wreckage he leaves behind.

How much is enough for a guy like that? You already know the answer. There is no such thing as enough.

Some people pursue money the way a black hole consumes light. Their appetites are infinite and their accountability is zero. They never hit a point where the tank reads full, because the chase is not about compensation. It is about domination. It is about winning the biggest game on earth, a game measured by the ability to hoard more wealth than entire nations and to bend public institutions to their liking.

And here is where the hypocrisy is most evident.