{"id":317844,"date":"2021-09-19T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=121088"},"modified":"2021-09-19T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:32:14","slug":"masters-of-illusion-sociopathy-from-the-very-rich-on-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/19\/masters-of-illusion-sociopathy-from-the-very-rich-on-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Illusion: Sociopathy from the Very Rich on Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Nothing Changes With the Rich!<\/p>\n You just can\u2019t make this stuff up as a fiction writer (also, see below, at the end of this piece**). Demonic, but sturdy. Boring actuarial folk, or in this guy\u2019s case, making loot illegally in the legal channel that is Illegal Wall Street:<\/p>\n Thomas Peterffy became one of the world\u2019s richest people by mastering risk on Wall Street. Building his Mediterranean-style mansion seven years ago on a vulnerable stretch of Florida\u2019s Palm Beach Island was a matter of seeing the odds clearly once again. The consequences of climate change will play out over decades, and Peterffy is 76 years old.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have a care about it at all,\u201d he said over lunch at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, just down the street from his home. \u201cIf something needs to be done to save it,\u201d he added, \u201cit\u2019s not going to be my problem.\u201d The founder of Interactive Brokers Group has a fortune of more than $21 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n