Something that I think would genuinely surprise people is the number of on-paper tech billionaires — yes, billionaires — who have roommates These people genuinely do not handle wealth the way people expect. There’s only so much you can spend on cold showers & electric bikes
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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
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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
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I noticed things most closely related to happiness are things that cannot be earned by effort or merit. Money can't buy happiness.
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