yeah i can confirm. had an acquaintance years ago who earned like 20k€/month (which is a lot around here). he seemed very unhappy to me. he did coke every weekend, and was generally very unhappy with his life (at least that’s what i suspect, my gut feeling).
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SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 week ago
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I have rubbed elbows with some rich people. They all had very shallow lives.
Isn’t that funny, you can have ANYTHING you want and you can’t figure out what you want?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
When you have that much money, you don’t have friends.
You never know if they like you or your money and you’re afraid it’s the latter.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most will give up just about anything for the lifestyle, but when it wears off. When you arent struggling and you’ve spend a few yeats traveling, yachting, sleeping around, buying everything you dreamed of. What’s left?
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money, so long as you’re willing to also put in work. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you’re choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.
Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you’ve created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It’s part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you’re still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there’s SOMETHING new you can experience.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Ever wonder why artists are always poor?
Money robs you of creativity, initiative, drive, passion, faith…no worries.