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That article read like The Great Gatsby, I gave up after a few paragraphs. I don't think I'm into idolizing rich people anymore, I probably would have devoured
by qdog 14y ago
That article read like The Great Gatsby, I gave up after a few paragraphs. I don't think I'm into idolizing rich people anymore, I probably would have devoured this in high school, though.
- jsnk 14y agoWhat is it about a person being rich that bothers you?
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- qdog 14y agoPeople being rich doesn't bother me, reading fluffy New Yorker articles about them just doesn't interest me. Other people obviously enjoy it, but it doesn't really read like the kind of article I look for on HN, or even in the New Yorker. Thiel's nose is bulbous? I needed to know that for some reason? It just read like a fawning article about some rich guy to me. The author met with Thiel in this fancy coffee shop, Thiel recently bought 2 multi-million dollar houses blah blah blah. Great, just not anything I personally care that much about.
- jaredmck 14y agoI didn't think it was fawning, in fact quite the opposite - that some of these details were intended ironically, and the tone of the piece was actually more negative? Did I just read what I wanted to see?
- qdog 14y agoI read a few paragraphs, started skimming, and eventually gave up, maybe it was only those first few paragraphs. It just didn't seem like a meaty article to me, and if it was, it was too much work for me to get to the meat. The internet may have made me lazy. Or maybe I read jwz too often and was pre-biased against Thiel - http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/paypal-founder-has-played-far-too-much-bioshock/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/paypal-founder-has-played-fa...
- ExpiredLink 14y agoHe is rich in terms of money but incredibly impoverished in his personal world view.
- tjic 14y ago> incredibly impoverished in his personal world view Translation: I think X is important, he thinks Y is important, therefore it's not merely a matter of having different priorities, but "he is wrong" and - worse than that - "his worldview is impoverished". I love how "tolerant people" can't tolerate people.
- loudmax 14y agoMoral priorities will always be subjective. There isn't much sense to prepending "I think" to a sentence when it's implied by the context. Being tolerant doesn't mean that one cannot be critical.
- tedunangst 14y agoBeing critical doesn't mean that one cannot be respectful.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoBeing rich is no problem. Acting like being rich means you're better than other people (or smarter, more hard-working, or even luckier, anything other than richer) is a huge problem, because it leads to a kind of economically-driven idolatry.
- calinet6 14y agoYou cannot deny it carries with it certain effects and consequences, and debatably, pre-existing personality traits.