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The weird thing about this moment in time, if you've somehow managed to get to conventional American middle-class wealth (and that does take both genuine luck a
by iwanttocomment 3y ago
The weird thing about this moment in time, if you've somehow managed to get to conventional American middle-class wealth (and that does take both genuine luck and skill and there are racial and socioeconomic disparities, don't get me wrong), is that it doesn't look fun in the slightest to be rich. What does Elon Musk have that I don't? A Cybertruck? 11 children from 3 mothers? All of Reddit and "X" calling me a jerk? Good lord. Do not want.
- jfengel 3y agoMusk has the ability, but not the interest, in stopping at any time. There's a poorly-defined spot that we keep looking at but not quite finding. Wealth gives you the ability to do what you want, though a lot of people don't seem to know quite what that is. Often, you might have some idea of it when you're young, but by the time you have achieved that middle-class-wealth, you're too old to do it (or think of yourself as too old). Zuckerberg and Bezos don't really seem to know what they want, other than to acquire more wealth. Musk, at least, seems to have ideas. And some of them seem like genuinely worthy ideas. Unfortunately, some of them really aren't. When it comes to Twitter, it sounds like he genuinely wants to shape the world conversation in his own image.
- rsynnott 3y agoI don’t think it’s actually just this moment in time. Being extremely rich has always been a slightly weird state which most people probably wouldn’t like very much. Like, if someone offered you the choice between 10 million dollars and a billion dollars, I’m not sure that the billion dollars should be the automatic choice.