Mastodawn

Like @cstross , I’ve only been realizing very late that extremely rich people are necessarily crazy.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/02/more-in-sadness-than-in-anger.html

It’s logical: non-crazy people will, at some point, hit the "more money than enough even for my craziest fullfilling dreams".

People who are still destroying their social/ecological environment for more money above that level are, obviously, crazy. And dangerous.

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Cade

@ploum @cstross there is a sort of corollary in behavioral economics - the happiness equation. Happiness = Reality - Expectation
So our happiness depends on the relative condition we encounter. To a person who thinks money can buy happiness, the happiness equation defines their disappointment. The money brings expectations which can always outpace improvement in their reality. To think one can transform reality more readily than adjusting one's own thinking, is truly crazy.