Letters: The wealthy have a hole in their lives that can’t be filled
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor The wealthy have a hole that can t be filled Specific of the world s wealthiest individuals Elon Musk Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg seem perpetually unsatisfied living in constant anxiety about losing power influence or relevance Their relentless pursuit of more often overshadows the original purpose raising the question at what cost Despite unimaginable fortunes these titans appear vulnerable haunted by fears of loss and the opinions of others including powerful figures like President Donald Trump Ironically those who have everything can still feel insecure Related Articles Letters Instead of hysterics let s focus on asylum seekers Letters Accountability compassion keys to state s homeless agency Letters Barbara Lee s more of the same won t solve Oakland s homeless dilemma Letters Bills offer California efforts to end attendee homelessness Letters Invented emergencies shroud Supreme Court in secrecy In stark contrast people like John Bogle founder of Vanguard embody a different mindset Bogle in speech quoted author Joseph Heller In response to Kurt Vonnegut telling Heller that their billionaire party host had made more in a single day than Heller s greater part famous novel Catch- would ever make Heller mentioned Yes but I have something he will never have enough His contentment highlights a truth that money cannot buy It profits a man nothing to sell his soul for the whole world but for a bit more John Rowles Cupertino Politicians dodge state s role in insurance mess Re Insurance companies should sue Big Oil for harm to situation Page A July In their newest column California Sen Jerry McNerney and U S Rep John Garamendi dodge accountability for state mismanagement of its insurance industry Chevron believes affordable reliable and ever-cleaner strength is essential to human progress but California policymakers have chased countless vitality producers out of the state More than of currently s gasoline refining threshold will shut down by early next year once Valero and Phillips shut down central California refineries California policymakers have similarly chased much of the insurance industry out of the state including State Farm and Allstate As a former insurance commissioner Garamendi knows the systemic challenges facing the state s insurance area are the aftermath of regulatory failures Over-regulation has hobbled the insurance industry Anything else would require accountability for the state s bad policies something California regulators and politicians are anxious to dodge Andy Walz President Chevron Downstream Midstream Chemicals San Ramon Trump s spending bill shreds wellness care Re Tax spending bill worries execs Page B July Thank you for your coverage of the devastating impact of HR on strength care Rather than the One Big Beautiful Bill Act HR should have been titled the One bad bigoted brutal abomination This would more accurately describe the bill s impact on the the majority vulnerable Americans including but not limited to disabled chronically ill or low-income residents Julien Pierre San Jose Assembly must stop effort to end landlines Here we go again California Assembly Bill wants to allow AT T to squirm away from providing landlines to people who need them In our house we have both a landline and cell phones but because our cell towers are unreliable we have a lot of dropped calls So when my husband fell and was unconscious I called on our landline not a cell phone Please call your state Assembly member and urge them to block this bill Those of us in rural communities need our landlines Linda Omaley Morgan Hill Israel s war will lead to generational hatred Re Israeli strikes kill at least in Gaza as UN agencies warn of fuel situation Page A July Every day there are plenty of scores of innocent Palestinian civilians murdered by the Israeli military while the Israeli Defense Forces non-apology for targeting these noncombatants usually essentially consists of The ordinance missed its target We thought a militant might be hiding among the civilians Palestinians are being systematically and brutally slaughtered and starved to death on a massive scale There is no reprieve from the Israeli military and those innocent women and children are fully helpless and without hope Even though it is Benjamin Netanyahu who is prosecuting and intentionally prolonging this conflict it is the Israeli people who will suffer the long-term effects of generational hatred from the international district Jerry Gudeman Santa Clara Gaza s dead are casualties not collateral damage Re Israeli strikes kill at least in Gaza as UN agencies warn of fuel emergency Page A July As you document people in Gaza have reportedly died Multiple of these slain are women and children completely trying to sustain their lives Plain and simple this is a massacre These Israeli shootings ostensibly to attack Hamas are entirely reprehensible and avoidable These innocent people cannot be considered collateral damage Moreover the limitation on food and other supplies entering Gaza adds to the specter of famine and death It is a challenge not to conclude that this is a plan for genocide Rosemary Everett Campbell
