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What do the wealthy do with their time? Some of them throw it away worthlessly, others make art. Or start businesses that fail. Some succeed. Some succumb to ex
by fartcannon 6y ago
What do the wealthy do with their time? Some of them throw it away worthlessly, others make art. Or start businesses that fail. Some succeed. Some succumb to existential dread of a challenge free life. Some create new challenges.
Why don't poor people deserve the same choices?
- beaconstudios 6y agoYou're imagining that I disagree with you, but I don't. I'm just anticipating the next problem: it's fine when only a fraction of a small population (the very wealthy) have a serious case of the Oblomovs, but when some percentage of everybody has no purpose in life that's going to be one hell of a problem.
- fartcannon 6y agoGotcha. I think it's worth a shot. As it stands, too many minds whither away because they weren't born with the chance.
- exporectomy 6y agoIn the west, that "chance" is rarely money. It's the whole upbringing that helps develop a person's abilities. Money can't fix that, especially not if everyone has it - i.e. it won't get you into a better school or neighborhood.
- macinjosh 6y agoThinking about what people do and don’t deserve to have is a very shallow view of the world. No one _deserves_ to make those choices. Some people get to make them but that doesn’t mean they or anyone else deserves that privilege. At most it’s a happy accident that some people get this choice.