As I say in my #21; the motivation is more or less simple vandalism. This is a philosophy (if you can call it that...it’s more a default mental condition) of jealous ingrates who only wish to see the high and mighty fall. They don’t care if they themselves rise; they care more that the mighty or the once-mighty fall. They don’t care if all the programs they want to have going are unfailingly gamed by predators from the inside; they just want to feel righteous for advocating “fairness” and “empathy” as a by-product of wanting to tear down the successful.
Why do you think there is so much attention paid to the Anthony Weiners and Charlie Sheens of the world?
It’s just a low-rent myopic philosophy of a class of people who have no aspiration for themselves either because they have never sought it, or because the school system has trained it out of them. Their concept of fairness is not achieving anything. It is tearing down the apparently now successful, with the idea that since they do not see themselves as creating something from nothing, that tearing down SOMEthing will inevitably scatter some crumbs their way. It’s pathetic, but that’s how I see it.
And in some sense, I can understand it. Because what they see is a system where laws are not enforced on those occupying highest rungs of the ladder. What they see is ridicule of morality and an ethical environment where getting away with stuff is valued more highly than taking the accepted rules of the system, working within them, and making something out of nothing. There are no established principles; there is what you can get away with.
I have the opposite view. I see someone successful and wonder how can I emulate that? I have no desire to go to Bill Gates' house and slash up his Van Gogh paintings because he has "more" than me. At the end of the day, Gates is still rich, his paintings are repaired, and I'm in jail.