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According to Chekhov: "One is shy of asking men under sentence what they have been sentenced for; and in the same way it is awkward to ask very rich people wha
by ocfnash 7y ago
According to Chekhov:
"One is shy of asking men under sentence what they have been sentenced for; and in the same way it is awkward to ask very rich people what they want so much money for, why they make such a poor use of their wealth, why they don't give it up, even when they see in it their unhappiness"
- iandanforth 7y agoThis. The trivial answer to 'reintroducing struggle' isn't even discussed.
- x0ner 7y ago“That’s one of the problems he seems to be grappling with: more money, generally, means less struggle, and if it’s struggle that made him, how does he find that going forward?”
- klipt 7y agoMoney only removes some struggles. As Steve Jobs found, even ridiculous money won't prevent you from struggling if you have terminal cancer.
- gdix 7y agoSolution for Peter Rahal: get cancer.
- klipt 7y agoMaybe then he'd plow his money into something useful like cancer research. Of course, even better if he puts his money to a good cause without getting cancer.
- pembrook 7y agoBy simply reinvesting his money into the economy via stocks and bonds he is contributing the making the world a better place. Market economics has been lifting the world's humans out of poverty at an alarmingly fast rate since 2000. You'll never hear about this in the news of course.
- wavefunction 7y ago>You'll never hear about this in the news of course. Why I heard that very sentiment this morning on the news.
- myth_drannon 7y agoHe didn't get a terminal cancer, I remember with all his money he went the looney way of treating cancer and then it was too late for a proper treatment. Money does gives you opportunity to get better healthcare that the mere mortals can only dream of.
- dropit_sphere 7y agoSure, because that's not actually the problem. What he was looking for was self-actualization. He thought he'd find that through building a company. He was wrong. That doesn't mean building a company js a bad thing! It's more like watering your plants when what they actually need is higher nitrate content. It's easy to mock the rich for being at a bit of a loss on how to live life, but in their defense, they have fewer models to follow, and many of the most important lessons apply to private rather than public behavior. There are lots of people out there who unironically believe that "if they only knew how to code" a lot of their problems would be solved. And perhaps they would---but new, unforeseen ones would arrive.
- ryanmarsh 7y agoIt's very nice to not have to worry about money. I think people tend to downplay the importance of removing this stress from your life. No, money doesn't solve everything, but for me the lack of it created an immense amount of stress.
- _ah 7y agoI've heard this alternately stated: "It's better to be poor: you're just as unhappy as a rich person, but you still have hope that money will help."
- ska 7y agoReintroducing struggle is directly discussed in the article.