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Ultimately money is just optionality/freedom. Some of the really rich people I know actually want less *stuff* than I do, but their liabilities are nuts
tbh, this is mostly just me mulling over the idea of “100,000x” material wealth. The best most ultrawealthy people can do is models on a megayacht, which is maybe just 5x over normal pretty girls on a speedboat rental. The hedonic treadmill doesn’t have all that many gears
Of course, yachts look pretty perverse if you’re swimming in student debt or medical bills — fair enough. Still, if you’re a middle class westerner who’s ever attended a half-decent NYE party you’re probably within an order of magnitude of all-time peak human decadence
The really absurd thing are these “one of a kind” status goods inflated to hell — but if you’re Indiana Jones-ing it with the default take “that priceless artifact belongs in a museum, where schoolchildren can be forced to stare at it!” congrats, you’re the pricing mechanism
idk, vanity rocket companies are pretty expensive
so are AI research institutes
Your innocence of where the hedonic treadmill goes after megayachts is both endearing and unsettling.
Enlighten those of us who didn't know there is a stage after megayachts?
I’m not interested in the hedonic treadmill, but there are large (impactful to society) projects I know already that I would pursue if I had huge material wealth. For the reluctant billionaires, maybe they can be convinced to join Gates and Buffett in improving the world.
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