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Hoarding Power: The Billionaire Brain and the Psychology of Possession

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The psychological patterns that drive someone to fill their house with newspapers are remarkably similar to the patterns that drive someone to accumulate billions of dollars.
This episode of PsyberSpace argues that extreme billionaire wealth accumulation shares key psychological patterns with clinical hoarding disorder. Host Leslie Poston explores the evolutionary roots of hoarding, connects billionaire personality traits to compulsive acquisition, and examines how society enables this 'pathology' at a scale that threatens democratic stability.

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A sharp look at hoarding, wealth, and control.

The episode treats billionaire accumulation as a psychological problem, not just a financial one, and that gives it real force. It starts with hoarding as a psychiatric condition built around refusal and control, then broadens the idea to billionaires, oligarchs, and tech moguls…

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You want a psychological lens on billionaire power and accumulation.

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