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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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
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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
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youtube.com/visakanv ( ❤️ if you subscribe!) @visakanvI read a story a long time ago about the son of a Chinese billionaire who said that he was incredibly lonely & depressed, and I think about that a lot. I believe him. I believe it's true that he is sadder than lots of poor people, despite having a 100,000x better life materiallyShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
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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