Happy New Year 2023!

Their presence permeated our society like secondhand smoke last year. But building a society with more equality is the best 2023 New Year's resolution of all.

Trump](https://people.com/politics/house-gop-deletes-kanye-elon-trump-tweet-after-antisemitic-tirade/)” tweet. ](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/) Musk [asked Twitter users whether he should step down](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/elon-musk-ceo-poll-bots) as CEO, and they voted “yes.” [shuns material things](https://fortune.com/2022/11/23/inside-ftxs-crypto-empire-in-the-bahamas/). Trump seems to be [losing ground](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/20/trump-desantis-poll), and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee finally took down their “ [Kanye. At this moment, Bankman-Fried is a disgraced man [under house arrest at his parents’ place](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/business/ftx-sam-bankman-fried/index.html). [few men in nurturing roles](https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/gender-equality-nursery-key-achieving-gender-equality-workplace-ncna951686). Here is a man who loses no opportunity to proclaim the philosophy of “effective altruism,” which holds that he must earn as much money as possible to save the future of humanity — yet [screwed over the charities he promised money](https://www.fastcompany.com/90813909/what-the-ftx-bankruptcy-means-for-the-charities-that-sam-bankman-fried-supported). They include FTX employees, who were [encouraged to invest their earnings back into the company](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/16/ftx-employees-were-encouraged-to-keep-life-savings-in-the-now-bankrupt-exchange-sources-say/). Yet his most recent home address (before his detention in a Bahamian jail) was a [marble-clad penthouse in one of the world’s most exclusive resorts overlooking a marina for mega-yachts](https://www.yahoo.com/video/disgraced-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-163259277.html). They can also tend to be [manipulative, arrogant, grandiose and hungry for admiration](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/narcissism-symptoms-signs). [self-centeredly disregard the needs of others and care little for pesky matters like consequences](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/narcissism-symptoms-signs).