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for once, a subsection of rich people get a taste of what most regular people go through on a daily basis just goes to show that this project might have spent
by xyst 6y ago
for once, a subsection of rich people get a taste of what most regular people go through on a daily basis
just goes to show that this project might have spent more money on marketing and advertising rather than on their engineering and architect departments.
- nefitty 6y agoI get the schadenfreude. I used to dismiss the suffering of people who were “beyond” the survival levels of Maslow’s hierarchy. This changed for me when I read that Peter Singer himself focuses on influencing survival-level needs for those in poverty because they are more immediate and are more quantifiable. He said something like, “Well-off people suffer, of course, but those types of suffering are more difficult to measure and entail interventions beyond vaccines or food distribution. I don’t focus on those types of suffering because there so much of the basic kind and also because it’s too hard of a problem.” When I segmented suffering by the individuals’ place on Maslow’s hierarchy, it helped me develop more compassion for the rich than is in vogue. “Oh, that guy driving that Lamborghini isn’t hungry, but he might be the loneliest person I’ve ever met.”
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoHaving to take the freight elevator to your unfinished $20M apartment isn't suffering. These are spoiled brats grown up.
- tasuki 6y ago> Having to take the freight elevator to your unfinished $20M apartment isn't suffering. It might be? Suffering is entirely subjective... > These are spoiled brats grown up. Yes indeed.
- zimpenfish 6y agoWorks better if you say "...isn't suffering on a level the rest of us need to worry about", I think.
- LittlePeter 6y agoIsn't suffering? That person had to stand in the elevator between steel plates and plywood!
- S53Vflnr4n 6y agoI don’t think they will put up with these issues and live there like the rest of us. They are only concerned about the property value going down.
- indy 6y agoThey won't get a taste though. These people are rich enough that at the first sign of a leak in their apartment they'll have people to book them into a luxury hotel before flying off to another apartment, or maybe a little holiday to help them get over the stress they've had to 'endure'.
- plutonorm 6y agoI console myself with the notion: Rich people are often unhappy because they have a very high 'drive'. It is the dissatisfaction with what we have that makes us unhappy. Dopamine has a lot to answer for, because if you're high in dopamine you are constantly searching without ever succeeding. So the very thing that makes successful people successful also tends to make them unhappy. The state of searching is a state of dissatisfaction. You have to stop searching in order to be content.