Psychopathic State and the “Things of the Rich”

Subtitle: Psychopathology of the Brazilian State

1. Opening — Fractal, 17 years old

You see a headline:

millions diverted.
billions in tax exemptions.
a company that pays almost nothing.
very rich people getting richer.

And the strangest part:

it feels normal.

Now compare:

someone stealing a phone.
someone in debt.
someone arrested for very little.

Your body reacts differently.

Anger here.
Indifference there.

So the question is simple:

why does small crime feel bigger
than large-scale extraction?

Maybe because the large one…
you barely see it.

2. Deepening

The State is supposed to organize justice.

But when it starts operating with two standards—one for everyday life and another for the top—something shifts.

It stops being only inefficient.

It becomes functional for a few.

Here we enter the idea of “things of the rich.”

Not just wealth.

A structure:

• privileged access to law

• capacity to shape rules

• institutional protection

• invisibility of impact

In the book Coisa de Rico, this logic appears clearly:

there are practices only accessible to those with large capital—and even when they produce massive social consequences, they are rarely treated as crime.

This includes:

• aggressive tax planning

• use of offshore structures

• indirect political influence

• structured lobbying

• endless legal appeals

Now connect this to the State.

When legal and political systems work better for those with economic power, an asymmetry emerges:

visible crimes are punished.
structural crimes are normalized.

This distorts perception.

People begin to believe the problem lies in the small.

While the large operates silently.

This is not an accident.

It is design.

Reports from organizations like Oxfam show that global inequality continues to rise, with extreme wealth concentration among a small group.

Studies from institutions such as the World Inequality Lab reinforce how the top of the income distribution accumulates disproportionately more wealth over time.

Now comes the psychopathology.

The State begins to operate without proportional accountability.

It punishes quickly where there is no defense.
It delays or avoids action where power exists.

This creates a pattern:

• weak link between action and consequence

• normalization of asymmetry

• rationalization of inequality

• maintenance of advantage without responsibility

At the individual level, this would resemble psychopathic traits.

At the system level, it becomes normal.

And the most critical point:

when people internalize this, they reproduce it.

They admire wealth without questioning origin.
They blame the poor.
They accept the system as inevitable.

At that point, the State no longer needs to impose.

It is sustained by perception itself.

3. Metacognition

Now bring this inward.

When you see someone very rich, what do you feel?

Admiration?
Indifference?
Suspicion?

And when you see someone struggling?

Empathy?
Judgment?
Distance?

These reactions are not neutral.

They were learned.

Go deeper:

Have you ever normalized injustice
because it seemed “too big to understand”?

Have you thought:

“this is just how it works”?
“nothing can be done”?

This is the turning point.

The psychopathology of the State does not live only in institutions.

It lives in perception.

When we lose the ability to feel structural injustice,
we accept any system.

But when the body begins to perceive differences in scale—
between small and large,
between visible and invisible—

something shifts.

The question changes from:

“who is wrong?”

to:

“who is protected?”

And more:

“who defines what counts as crime?”

This reorders everything.

Because it brings awareness back into the system.

Without awareness, there is no “we.”

Only adaptation.

With awareness, change becomes possible.

References (Didactic Order)

Books

1. Coisa de Rico
   Reveals economic and legal practices accessible only to elites, showing how large-scale impacts are often invisible.

2. Thomas Piketty — Capital in the Twenty-First Century
   Analyzes the historical dynamics of wealth concentration and its political consequences.

3. Jessé Souza — The Elite of Backwardness
   Explains how Brazilian elites construct narratives that blame the poor while hiding structural privilege.

4. David Graeber — Debt: The First 5,000 Years
   Shows how debt and power have always been intertwined in social organization.

5. Shoshana Zuboff — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
   Explains how behavioral data became a concentrated form of economic power.

Post-2021 Publications and Reports

1. Oxfam — Inequality Reports (2023–2025)
   Show continued growth in global wealth concentration and widening social inequality.

2. World Inequality Lab — World Inequality Report (2024)
   Provides detailed global data on income and wealth distribution.

3. IMF (2023) — Fiscal Policy and Inequality Studies
   Demonstrates how tax systems can either reduce or intensify inequality.

4. OECD (2022–2024) — Tax Avoidance and Inequality Reports
   Analyzes how tax avoidance affects public revenue and fairness.

5. Nature Human Behaviour (2025) — Economic Justice Perception Studies
   Shows how perceptions of inequality influence political and social behavior.

6. Academic Studies on Elite Influence and Policy Capture (2022–2025)
   Document how economic elites shape public policy outcomes across multiple countries.