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>Bill Gates His Mom knew the chairman of IBM. That's a connection no normal person will ever have. Steve Jobs and Steve Woz actually had to start from a middl
by 999900000999 2y ago
>Bill Gates
His Mom knew the chairman of IBM.
That's a connection no normal person will ever have. Steve Jobs and Steve Woz actually had to start from a middle class.
Comparison is the theft of joy, I haven't been evicted since I got my first apartment at 19 and with any luck I'll retire early. That's enough for me. I'm widely more success than I could of imagined.
Yes someone else is making a million a month, has a beautiful partner and a family.
Someone else just got out of prison and is struggling to stay in housing.
I will never know why the rich ( north of 10 million in the US) feel a need to keep working though. Start a band, travel, etc.
Why deal with VCs breathing down your neck.
Then again, if I woke up rich I'd probably start a game studio as a passion project.
I'd want to release all the code open source. I want the popular games of the future to at a minimum be open core.
- kubb 2y agoEvery time this sentiment comes up, it's worth repeating: it's not about envy. It's not about how much they have or how much better their life is than yours. It's about inequality creating a worse world for everyone. We all do this exercise of being happy with what we have regularly. This is how you deal with the reality that you live in. But you shouldn't let this coping mechanism stop you from pushing for a better world with less inequality. Getting comfortable with how broken things are is necessary, but not sufficient. Imagining that things could be worse is only half the answer. The other half is thinking how things could be better.
- verteu 2y ago> I will never know why the rich ( north of 10 million in the US) feel a need to keep working though. Start a band, travel, etc. I suspect it's selection bias: Non-workaholics rarely build vast wealth.