Just randomly got sucked into rich-lifestyles YouTube for 15 minutes. Dubai, Hollywood, etc. The juxtaposition of immense extravagance and immense vacuity...wow. If I was that boring and surrounded by that many equally boring people I too would want infinite toys.
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And right after that, I went back to my physics of time book and had the opposite reaction. Just a peek inside the heads of immensely interesting people whose material lives brevolve around mostly just pen and paper and chalkboards.
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I am wary of fetishizing the life of the mind but damn, the difference is so stark. I’d give up a unit of material plenty for a unit of inner life interestingness nearly all the way to the end of the trade off curve.
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I mean damn, these sheikhs are the richest people who ever lived in many ways and they can’t think of much better things to do with their money than Lamborghinis and falcons and camel races? I have to feel a bit sorry for them.
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Agree with everything you’ve said but the falcons. I’m a bummer for the falcons.
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flying lambos & hydrofoil superyatchs are next increments before next gen rich kids of vacuous-wealth-signalling-gram (interplanetary edition)...
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There are people who balance both.
But they're not interesting to 'oi polloi, who don't want to learn that <xxx> sold his company at age 35 for $120M and now spends his time reading about every subject that interests him.
Not everyone in 1st class is a moron...






