S-Config
In one of my chats with a freind he didn't understand why every hyper rich person is completely insane.. and swear they wouldn't be like that with a billion dollars..

Money does change things.. Perhaps this is an outlook on our general state of society. But try doing something like dying your hair an odd color and then going for a job interview. Society wants conformity at the cost of identitiy. Stay in your fucking box.

but with billions.. The box does not exist.. and it's unlikely anyone who has spent their lives in boxes would know how to handle that mentally. So of course you'd do some crazy shit. Build a fibreglass hamburger house to blindly piss off the people in the HOA. drive around fast cars and have lawyers on retention to pardon you of any and all laws.. you become the thing you hate unless you donate it all keeping just enough to live a modest life. but that takes self-control again..
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Show threadarcanicanisMar 9

It's also conversely weird where people hold the belief that if they were insanely rich, that their life would be substantially better.

Yes, you would no longer have financial stressors (then again, if you're not stupid and blow it all and end up broke..), wouldn't have an obligation to work, but then some people also start to lack finding purpose or function in life on their own. You've 100%ed the game, what objectives are left?

But even moreso is all the fake people. That you could be a center of attention to a crowd, but where it's not genuine. It's not where [at least most] people even actually care about you personally, and are more interested about being in your proximity just for your status and money. If you're too notable, you can't live as a nobody anymore. You're also a magnet for the occasional crazy person that you've never met.

I remember there being a news article about one notable figure that had made it very big, that they felt essentially alone and depressed. There was such a condescending public response, of people mocking said person, as if it's like impossible to be a multi-billionaire and also be depressed, even as a genuine person (not like someone that faked their way and used people to get to their status, whereas in that case, it'd certainly be due).

Show threadDeltaWyeMar 9

@S-Config I think there are probably people out there who COULD be or have been centimillionaires or billionaires, but they took their money and used it to help out other people well before they amassed a staggering hoard of money.

There are probably people who are making a tiny fraction, below poverty levels, who are donating money, who give a larger percent of their income to good charities than billionaires do.

Show threadPiko Starsider Mar 9
@S-Config also because only certain kinds of people become billionaires. Not only you have extremely lucky with the birth lottery, you also have to live and grow up with people that are mostly disconnected from what a regular person's life is like. Also every rag-to-riches story has a catch, or an extremely lucky place and time to implement an idea.