A friend of mine explained what he thought online dating was: “A weird collection of messages where each person seems to be in a race to show how little they care about the person they talk to, where admitting you’re lonely is the greatest sin, and where you basically have to go full FBI to find out whether the person will skin you alive.”

At the time, I thought he was joking. After trying the online dating scene, I realized he was actually pretty on point. Online dating is soul-sucking in a way that doesn’t really feel natural.

Or maybe it’s entirely natural.

In recent years, I’ve started to notice several things that just…don’t make sense about humanity. I don’t understand why the people who ask for help rarely ever get the specific help they keep asking for. I don’t understand why a person’s “value” goes up the less they need people around them.

Perhaps the strangest, most unnatural thing about humanity is the way the rich treat the poor. And no, I don’t mean the rich as the people with millions. I mean the rich as in billionaires and trillionaires. By poor, I mean those of us who are middle class or lower.

I think there are a handful of trillionaires too. It’s wild. That’s enough money to quite literally buy a whole country without having to even go into debt. That’s enough money to never run out of places to visit or things to do.

They can buy anything they want: companionship, mansions, yachts, business ideas, as well as the ears of politicians around the world. With that much money, it’s hard to think of anything that they can’t actually purchase.

Oh, except for one thing.

They can’t purchase genuine respect and awe. They can’t purchase how history will remember them or how children will speak of them. Even with the best PR agencies in the world, humanity won’t forgive the way they hoard wealth and make others suffer to make a quick buck.

Back when I had money, I’ve been there. Heck, I’ve been used, even when I didn’t have much to my name. After a while, it’s easy to fall into the feeling of being persecuted and hunted—never able to trust.

But that doesn’t mean that you have to enact revenge on others.

Regardless of what they choose to do with their cash, they are never going to stop having people ask for money. I mean, vultures are always going to exist. So, maybe that’s why they have the disdain we see them have in them.

That’s the wildest thing about all this. It doesn’t have to be that way. Billionaires and trillionaires have enough money and power to actually change every human life in existence today. That’s insane, isn’t it?

There’s enough money and influence to permanently end food insecurity. They have enough influence to put an end to climate change and make it possible for humanity to work toward healing the planet.

Imagine how humanity would treat billionaires and trillionaires if they did that en masse. Imagine if they actually became vessels for the betterment of humanity—how all of us would likely be awestruck by how much they accomplished.

There would be so many different ways to change the way they lived their lives or the way they felt. Rather than be seen as monsters tearing apart a dying world, it seems like most billionaires could channel that cash into making the world a better place.

Society has certain rules it typically abides by, at least, when it’s healthy. One of those rules is that you have to give back (or just start giving) to others if you want to remain respected. Continually taking does no good. It ends up taking from you, too.

But they don’t. Because they’re not well. They think they’re okay, but they’re not. They’re fucking sick. And they’re sick enough to let the planet die rather than actually change before it’s too late.

And it feels like so many of us are afraid to collectively call out their sickness, because the ruling class seems so hellbent on letting their sickness trickle down on us. And yet…we let them.