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It's hard to tell if he's not materialistic - though he seems happy with the choices he made and in the end, happiness is a choice.
by nxzero 11y ago
It's hard to tell if he's not materialistic - though he seems happy with the choices he made and in the end, happiness is a choice.
- gdulli 11y agoI don't consider myself unmaterialistic. I'm happy that I'm comfortable and secure. I don't put too much value on material things but some of them do make my life better. If I could get a ton more money without anything else in my life changing, then sure, I'd take it. But if that money came with power, a high profile job, I'd have to work a ton, have a ton of stress, change my lifestyle, my main social circles would have to be with other rich people, nearly all the attention I ever got would be from people I can't trust not to want something... just no. I'm happy now and that's not an equilibrium I want to upset. Nothing about the day to day lives of rich, powerful people seems like so much fun as to outweigh the negatives, which if you pay attention, seem to be many. "The best life is one the gods don't notice."
- nxzero 11y agoJust to be clear, since it's a bit unclear, you're not the person the is the subject of the article, but a random person responding to the comment I posted.