Billionaires are money hoarders pure and simple.

[Yavin4]

No human being needs a billion US dollars. In fact, even $100 million is probably too much. Once you've acquired enough wealth to provide for your family, your grandchildren, and heck, even your extended family, it's neither healthy nor normal for you as a human or for society to keep acquiring money. It's unnatural and unhealthy. At that point in your life, you should seek fulfillment by helping out others and improving the overall condition of mankind on the planet.

[KT2000]

1. but they buy art work!

every record-breaking sale means they have the best stuff.

[fescuerescue]

2. Most billionaires don't have billions in cash money

It usually takes the form of owning a large share of a corporation. Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart etc come to mind.

And then it comes down to a matter of control - they keep a huge chunk of the company to maintain control of it.

It's not really about hoarding money. Its about hoarding power.

[Yavin4]

4. Hoarding money/Hoarding power potato/potahto

The same principle applies. Once you have enough wealth, or power, to provide to your family, extended family, etc., stop and do something positive with your life.

If it's in the form of stocks, liquidate your positions, help humanity, and be a human being.

[lame54]

7. So the hooker and blow filled yachts are free?

[snort]

16. Write off.

So, yeah.

[Calculating]

3. It's either about power or the game to them

Money equals power in our society, and certain individuals get onto hoarding it for that reason. To others, it's basically a game like getting the high score in the arcade. It's all about beating those other billionaires and getting higher on the list.

[lame54]

8. As Gordon Gekko explained...

It's a way to keep score

[eppur_se_muova]

5. At that point ... maybe you should seek mental help, if you're still obsessed with $$$. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

12. They're evil as much or more than they are crazy

You keep hearing that no one can spend that much money.

But really, there is something you can buy that really costs that much.

It's the government.

If your main goal in life is to be treated -- quite literally -- like a king, then you have to have enough bribe money to overturn the resistance to monarchy that is essential to a working democracy.

Have to buy lots of politicians, lots of pundits, if possible, lots of news outlets.

Their objectives are sick, but the strategy is consistent with their aims.

[onethatcares]

6. if I hoarded fishing rods

and had a billion of them, I'd be sick because there is no way I could use all of them.

Exact same thing with dollar bills.

[sarcasmo]

9. Greed is a disease.

[brooklynite]

11. So is envy.

[brooklynite]

10. How much money should J.K. Rowling have?

[Yavin4]

15. Enough to guarantee economic security for her and her family and her extended family

Anything above that is just hoarding.

[stuffmatters]

13. Any one who's ever waitressed at a country club has known this fact since youth.

[BadgerMom]

14. They have to hoard. They have no interests like movies and women and booze /s

[OMGWTF]

17. One of the Koch Brothers Was Once Asked How Much is Enough?

His reply was that he only wanted what was due him, which is EVERYTHING. The Kochs and their ilk are sociopaths. BTW, here's the short list of common household items that the Koch brothers produce, so that you can avoid supporting their evil causes.

KOCH BROTHERS PRODUCTS TO BOYCOTT:
American Greetings Cards
Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products and envelopes
Lycra
Stainmaster Carpet

[dansolo]

18. They aren't hoarders, they are takers.

Calling them hoarders implies that they have some sort of uncontrollable compulsion to accumulate wealth. But that isn't it at all. To them it is a zero sum game. The more they have, the less for everyone else. That is their real desire - the sick need to see everyone else suffer.

[lostnfound]

19. Takers is what they call the lower classes

It’s a good phrase to turn on it’s head