I wonder how much of that “money can’t buy happiness” thing that many famous actors and musicians go on about is really about how their specific industries suck. Like, Hollywood seems super toxic, and between all the drugs and the extensive touring, the rockstar life doesn’t really look so hot, either. And most of them are still basically employees, even if they’re a thousand times richer than the avergage joe. I wonder if the actual owners of all the film studios and record labels are miserable, too?
I 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.
you probably broke your brain and soul to get there
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.
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.
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
least in the US, where there are practically zero support mechanisms in most of the country
Someone who has maybe one or two million dollars doesn’t even come close to the power that a CEO or major stockholder of a big company wields. If you’re on that level, it’s pretty much impossible to become poor, which very much remains a possibility with 1-2 million.
Middle class is a thing for a reason, and if you’re going to say that it doesn’t exist because only the owners of capital aren’t working class then the dude with 2 million is still working class.
no, i’m saying that unless that 1-2 millionaire started from nothing, he does not know the experience of struggle and eventual relief that is escaping the labour trap
And I’m saying that the difference between a low-end millionaire and a billionaire is just as large, if not larger, as the difference between a low-end millionaire and a poor person. People like the CEO he (allegedly) killed don’t view him as a peer.
I wonder how much of that “money can’t buy happiness” thing that many famous actors and musicians go on about is really about how their specific industries suck. Like, Hollywood seems super toxic, and between all the drugs and the extensive touring, the rockstar life doesn’t really look so hot, either. And most of them are still basically employees, even if they’re a thousand times richer than the avergage joe. I wonder if the actual owners of all the film studios and record labels are miserable, too?
I 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.
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.
rich people go to great lengths to grow sociopathic replacements, is why class conscious traitors like luigi are so vilified
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.
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
least in the US, where there are practically zero support mechanisms in most of the country
Someone who has maybe one or two million dollars doesn’t even come close to the power that a CEO or major stockholder of a big company wields. If you’re on that level, it’s pretty much impossible to become poor, which very much remains a possibility with 1-2 million.
Middle class is a thing for a reason, and if you’re going to say that it doesn’t exist because only the owners of capital aren’t working class then the dude with 2 million is still working class.
no, i’m saying that unless that 1-2 millionaire started from nothing, he does not know the experience of struggle and eventual relief that is escaping the labour trap
And I’m saying that the difference between a low-end millionaire and a billionaire is just as large, if not larger, as the difference between a low-end millionaire and a poor person. People like the CEO he (allegedly) killed don’t view him as a peer.