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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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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...
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Reminds me of switching b/w Instagram and Twitter in the digital world, or switching b/w Brooklyn & Dubai in the physical. In the latter case the cognitive dissonance in combination with jet lag makes it really surreal.
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