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Is this too much to ask? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] [S] 134 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I've had this same thought. Like, if I ever had the opportunity to be as rich as Bezos or Musk, I don't think I'd make it because I would've stopped so much earlier.

At a certain point, I'd just think "Sweet, we're set for life, and I can spend all my time with my wife and kids." Why would I sacrifice that kind of life just to see numbers on my bank accounts go up in a way that no longer meaningfully affects us?

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Plenty of people probably did, but the ones that don't are the ones that stand out, so they're the ones we know. Nobody cares about the guy who made a billion dollars and fucked off somewhere; even if they're still a blight on the country with that much wealth, we've got bigger fish to fry.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Like Tom from Myspace?

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Tom is the exact model of how I want to see people get rich. He got his bag and then disappeared off the face of the planet. He's not in politics trying to enact a cyberpunk state. He's not in the news every day telling you that if you give your kids a measles shot you're performing the work of the devil. He's off on a beach somewhere taking photos because he loves it, not bothering a soul. Tom is an alright dude and I have no problems with him.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I'd just think "Sweet, we're set for life, and I can spend all my time with my wife and kids." Why would I sacrifice that kind of life just to see numbers on my bank accounts go up in a way that no longer meaningfully affects us?

    I'm sure there are a massive amount of rich people with this mindset. we just don't hear about it cause the few that keep on getting wealthy for the sake of power ruin it for everybody

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bezos, Musk, et al. feel that they have not yet received what the world owes them. And since that feeling is a form of psychosis, they never will.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Only thing owed them is a sharp and heavy piece of rapidly falling metal.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I live for the day I see Elon Musk’s arms and legs poking out from under an anvil, cartoon-style.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Me too. Honestly, I’ve gotten to the point where I believe one is actually required to be sociopathic and all that comes with it in order to become that ultra wealthy. Capitalism essentially rewards these traits and concentrates them into the greed for power at the cost of all else that we see as a through line with these people.

    People like us and most everyone else just aren’t wired that way, as ultimately we each have a limit to what and who we are willing to sacrifice for material means. We all have experienced greed to some degree within ourselves, but the difference is that it has a ‘bottom’ so to speak.

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