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Money removes social feedback. You end up surrounded with bobble heads telling you how genius you are… because they want your money. This is terrible for human
by api 2y ago
Money removes social feedback. You end up surrounded with bobble heads telling you how genius you are… because they want your money. This is terrible for human psychology. It’s almost like a kind of solitary confinement — solitary in the sense that you are utterly deprived of meaningful rich human contact.
- yownie 2y agoit's this more than anything else I wish the general public would understand, those same bobble heads that surround celebrities and eventually warp all sense of costs of common everyday items. We often only see the end result of this when so-and-so celebrity declares bankruptcy and the masses cheer. In reality they've been vampire sucked dry by close family / friends / salesmen for years and didn't know it.
- aomix 2y agoI think about this comparison sometimes https://x.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888?lang=en https://x.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888?lan... "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day" Solitary confinement is a great comparison. But also not existing in the same reality is 99.99% of the population must really warp you too.
- throwaway42668 2y agoSam Altman is not a hapless victim at the mercy of the isolating effects of his financial success. He was an opportunistic, amoral sociopath before he was rich, and the system he reaps advantage from strongly selects for hucksters of that particular ilk more than anything else. He's just another Kalanick, Neumann, Holmes or Bankman-Fried.