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Exactly! I've been thinking along the same lines -- becoming a billionaire requires a person who will ignore the many offramps that occur along the way. Like, E
by ProjectArcturis 4y ago
Exactly! I've been thinking along the same lines -- becoming a billionaire requires a person who will ignore the many offramps that occur along the way. Like, Elon could have retired after he sold his first company and had $20M liquid. But he rolled that over into a new company, again and again, like a pathological gambler on the world's best hot streak.
Is life better as the world's (second) richest man vs just $20M? Maybe? It seems like you have a ton of new worries about your family's security, and you become inevitably embroiled in world politics, and a target for state intelligence agencies. But you've won the status wars, and rich people who you once admired now suck up to you.
It takes a very specific personality type to choose that tradeoff.
- maxbond 4y agoI read a story once about a miser with a djinni, who wished for more wishes, and more and more, and eventually died on a Scrooge McDuck pile of wishes. And after he died, the people in the town poked around his mansion, found this pile of wishes, and started using them to cure their illnesses and solve their problems. I feel like this is a good metaphor for Musk "gathering resources for humans to become an interplanetary species" - and then blowing more money then it should take to solve world hunger on an acquisition that seems perfectly calibrated to make him more and more miserable.