Comment on Anon knows suffering
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month agoI think it’s that once you’re wealthy enough to spend all your time doing whatever you want firstly you probably broke your brain and soul to get there and secondly you probably are just going to burn out on pleasure.
Like, I love me some cheap and easy pleasures. I’ve enjoyed orgies and I’ve drank my way into nights where all I remember is that I had fun. But simple pleasures and nice things are enhancements to a happy life. You need more which may ironically mean pursuing the middle way, or it may just mean learning to cherish a simple night in with a loved one.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Sounds like it doesn’t really apply to people who enjoy hereditary wealth, which is actually most of the really rich people. Of course, it’s possible that the same issue applies at the family level - in order to become and stay a wealthy family, you might need to be fucked up in some ways.
IronBird@lemmy.world 6 days ago
rich people go to great lengths to grow sociopathic replacements, is why class conscious traitors like luigi are so vilified
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 days ago
From what I read about him, Luigi never really counted as rich anyway. He wasn’t exactly poor, but he was much closer to poverty than to becoming a billionaire.
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 days ago
everything above working class is rich, trust me.
nobody who is rich will ever truly know the feeling of how it feels to need to work to live, unless they seriously fuck up amd lose everything with zero support.
that switch from survival mode chasing $ to being able to choose when/what you work on is indescribable