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I don’t remember where i saw it, but the thesis that being that unimaginably rich is detrimental to complex decision making has a certain logic to it. Compared
by airza 4y ago
I don’t remember where i saw it, but the thesis that being that unimaginably rich is detrimental to complex decision making has a certain logic to it.
Compared to a normal person, you just have so much power that your inner circle is unlikely to be able to change your decision making process if you don’t want them to. No matter how bad your decision making any consequences of those decisions is almost completely abstract (going from 100bn to 1bn net worth is a lot of money, but there are still almost no limits on your purchasing ability)
It seems like a lot of people i respected early on in their software careers (dhh, pg, etc have succumbed to this specific malady.)
- contravariant 4y agoThat's possible, though it implicitly assumes that Musk's reputation fell because his decision making has deteriorated, while the simpler explanation is that his decision is not any worse than i was he's just been placed in a position that involves increasingly bigger decisions and more scrutiny. People simply mistakenly thought that he was put in that position because he was amazingly good at making such decisions.