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People who are flagging it probably consider the articles insufficiently deep for HN. Most of the significant details won't be known for a while. Not to say t

People who are flagging it probably consider the articles insufficiently deep for HN. Most of the significant details won't be known for a while. Not to say the initial articles on the Bezos' divorce were deep.

gnicholas 5y ago
That's true. I would still say that there is something of interest to discuss here, which is the trend (if n=2 can be a trend) of ultra-wealthy tech moguls getting divorced after being married for decades. These are two of the five richest couples in the world, and they were both married before being ultra-wealthy. Many people envy them for their wealth, power, access, health, etc. But apparently having all of these things does not secure marital bliss. And perhaps having access to everything under the sun actually makes marital happiness and security harder to come by. This raises the question: if this is true for the wealthiest people, is it also true for 'mere' hundred-millionaires or millionaires? What are the actual impacts of achieving high levels of wealth, and should we actually be happier having less money/power because it means that we are more likely to have better relationships?
- throwaway3b03 5y ago
  > This raises the question: if this is true for the wealthiest people, is it also true for 'mere' hundred-millionaires or millionaires? What are the actual impacts of achieving high levels of wealth, and should we actually be happier having less money/power because it means that we are more likely to have better relationships? I don't think there's any difference at all between having a net worth of $100m, or tens or hundreds of billions. Once you're at a point where you know that you'll never worry about money, you have enough estates, you can do anything within reason, you're not that sensitive to the number of digits on your bank statement. Scope insensitivity.
  - gnicholas 5y ago
    I would guess that this is probably true, but then again I don't have $100M. It's possible that those people look up at wealthier folks in the same way that working wealthy look up at them (and working poor look up at working wealthy).

gnicholas 5y ago

That's true. I would still say that there is something of interest to discuss here, which is the trend (if n=2 can be a trend) of ultra-wealthy tech moguls getting divorced after being married for decades. These are two of the five richest couples in the world, and they were both married before being ultra-wealthy. Many people envy them for their wealth, power, access, health, etc. But apparently having all of these things does not secure marital bliss. And perhaps having access to everything under the sun actually makes marital happiness and security harder to come by. This raises the question: if this is true for the wealthiest people, is it also true for 'mere' hundred-millionaires or millionaires? What are the actual impacts of achieving high levels of wealth, and should we actually be happier having less money/power because it means that we are more likely to have better relationships?

throwaway3b03 5y ago
> This raises the question: if this is true for the wealthiest people, is it also true for 'mere' hundred-millionaires or millionaires? What are the actual impacts of achieving high levels of wealth, and should we actually be happier having less money/power because it means that we are more likely to have better relationships? I don't think there's any difference at all between having a net worth of $100m, or tens or hundreds of billions. Once you're at a point where you know that you'll never worry about money, you have enough estates, you can do anything within reason, you're not that sensitive to the number of digits on your bank statement. Scope insensitivity.
- gnicholas 5y ago
  I would guess that this is probably true, but then again I don't have $100M. It's possible that those people look up at wealthier folks in the same way that working wealthy look up at them (and working poor look up at working wealthy).