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I think they are, and strongly. The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem. Well adjusted individuals just chill
by literalAardvark 7mo ago
I think they are, and strongly.
The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem.
Well adjusted individuals just chill out after a few million and work on whatever is fun/important for them.
Only rarely does this also happen to be something that can take you from 10M to 1B. (and if it can it would take a lot of work you can't be bothered to do unless it's some core value like helping the poor beat malaria)
- thatguy0900 7mo agoTrump saying recently that he hates hanging around successful people and prefers losers because he doesn't want to listen to other people's stories really speaks to the poor self esteem angle
- esseph 7mo ago“I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” “I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people who like to listen to my success,” he added.
- SanjayMehta 7mo ago> core value like helping the poor beat malaria) Gates just doesn't want to be remembered for Windows. Much like Nobel didn't want to be remembered only for dynamite.
- nullocator 7mo agoWell now he'll be remembered for associating with pedophiles, infidelity, and walking back things he allegedly stood for, like climate change, as soon as they become inconvenient or he stops caring or whatever.
- jazz9k 7mo ago"The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem." This sounds like all of the cope I continue to hear about successful people. Very successful people MUST have something wrong with them...
- AlecSchueler 7mo agoYou don't think someone who makes 10 million and then chills out to work on passion projects is very successful?
- gnz11 7mo agoIt's OK to be critical of billionaires.
- throwawayqqq11 7mo agoBeing critical about billionares is empirically supported. Trump wouldnt exist if not supported by other psychopaths and now he selects even more unethical bootlickers for offices and rewards equally deranged amigos. Jazz9k just drank too much coolaid from billionare owned and election meddling twitter, i guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401368611_Psychopathic_Leadership_in_Large_Corporations_and_Its_Measurable_Harm_to_Societies https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401368611_Psychopat... https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_128 https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_128