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Money tends to change people.

• Nevermark 5y ago
  Anything that qualitatively changes what survival means to us, will change someone. For good, bad, indifferent. For most people a combination. A close friend gave me insight on why success changes people, after I hit a milestone that mattered to me. He told me, "You are still going to have problems, they are just going to be different problems." Each of our moral outlooks, stability, suitability for state of life, relatability, etc., is heavily dependent on our relationship with our survival environment. And success radically changes that relationship qualitatively, when it changes it much quantitatively.
  • inter_netuser 5y ago
    I think this is by far the best quantification of this phenomena. Did you read about the "what survival means to us" somewhere, or was that just convos with friends?
    • Nevermark 5y ago
      Just a convo with one friend.