>>831071that's kind of what i was trying to get at, the mindset of the boomers. what it is is, people like your dad are motivated by an unbelievable amount of sunk costs. they have burned away their entire adult lives being good obedient company boys doing what they are told, all in service of the notion that the money they would eventually gain from doing this would buy them happiness and security and earn them a seat at the big table. their entire adult lives, from their 20s to their 50s or 60s, all gone. not to mention all the other things they sacrificed along the way, all the ways they debased themselves, all the dishonest things they did and the fake smiles and nods they performed and the asses they kissed and the secrets they kept and the dirty laundry they handled without complaint, all the times they missed out on spending with their families and all the promises they broke and all the anniversities and couples dates and school plays and little league games they flaked out on, etc. how could they ever allow themselves to question it now? of course they can't question the integrity of the billionaires, because to do so they would then also have to question their own integrity, they would have to reckon with their own buyer's remorse at trading everything that actually mattered in their lives away for a little bit of fucking money. they'd have to kill themselves if they ever reckoned with it now, so they won't do that, they can never do that, they are locked in.