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My impression is that the opposite can be true as well: beyond a certain amount of wealth, no number can be high enough to not chase an even higher one. I belie
by usrusr 3y ago
My impression is that the opposite can be true as well: beyond a certain amount of wealth, no number can be high enough to not chase an even higher one. I believe that the low point of pursuing more is when there is enough money to make the immediate utility of a little more unnoticeable but not so much as to make your wealth the defining characteristic of your identity. Once that happens, no number will ever be high enough, they'll seek the higher number like competitive gamers seek higher scores, runners seek lower marathon times, skaters seek ability to do more tricks, collectors seek rare collectibles.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>beyond a certain amount of wealth, no number can be high enough to not chase an even higher one perhaps, but I think the previous point is more poigninant. If you make a billion dollars, many would care less about making 1 billion more than maybe making $200 million more and a way to start influencing others. You don't buy a large website for tens of billions because you expect to turn that into hunderds of billions. You do that because you now have the eyes and ears of billions of people. Money correlates with Fame, but by itself isn't fame. It's a tool to gather fame or power or simply leisure. Collecting money for money's sake probably isn't unheard of, but extremely unlikely.