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The richest man in the world everyone (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 194 points 2 months ago (31 children)

Money can absolutely buy happiness, but you have to be capable of feeling it. A trillion bucks would let anyone do amazing things that could make you incredibly happy.

However, the process of getting a trillion dollars requires that you're an evil psychopath incapable of experiencing pleasure.

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

    Just think about how much happiness you'd get from:

    • Completely solving world hunger, single-handedly.

    • Massive vaccine roll-outs to eradicate or nearly eradicate some of the worst diseases.

    • Giving every single homeless person in the US a free house to live in.

    • So much hookers and blow.

    And after all that, you'd still be a billionaire. Just getting started.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The world would also celebrate your existence, not despise you.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think about this all the time. If he just built electrified trains everywhere in the world and ended world hunger, I wouldn't even bat an eye if he also wanted to start a weird sex cult (with consenting adults). Chute dude, i'd probably sign up to incubate one of his sons.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Tbf if he just built electrified trains everywhere in the world, he'd run out of money before finishing a single continent.

    Think about it: He doesn't have a trillion dollars (or even a few hundred billions) in liquid cash. It's all in the perceived value of Tesla, which is about 30x overvalued (price/earnings being around 300, 10 is considered a normal healthy value). The more electrified trains everywhere, the fewer cars needed.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Solving world hunger would get you an endless parade of pussy.

    You wouldn't need hookers.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No one would need hookers everyone would be so well fed and happy and stress free that everyone would want to reproduce.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You think anyone would feel any happiness for that if they are already a trillionare? he probably would be more worried about wasting his money.

    If those people cared at all they would at least donate 1% of their income and donate more percentage as they get more money.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago*

    He cant solve world hunger, money isnt the problem, and liquidating the stocks to do that would wipe out the value of what his stocks are worth leaving not enough money anyway.

    Its an incredibly complex problem.

    He could likely do something about it in specific isolated western countries though.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah I agree, if I was a billionaire I’d be spending a lot of money on things that don’t just benefit myself, and I’d hope that’d make me happy at least a little bit. I think the not having happiness part comes from the hoarding part of it.

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

    But you wouldn't be a billionaire. There are people in the world that do good, they just don't get as rich because they care about people

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Exactly. I believe that becoming a billionaire is necessarily a symptom of some kind of mental illness because of what it takes to do so. Most people would be unwilling to do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    You’re probably right. I do wonder though if you could become a billionaire and outweigh the harm you have to do to become one once you achieve that marker but it’s certainly a tough question. Especially with no guarantee you’ll even make it to that height then you could become essentially evil for nothing. Plus who’s to say you don’t lose yourself in the process. The difference between a multimillionaire and a billionaire is certainly quite vast.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    There have been studies done that suggested money can buy happiness but only to a certain extent. I think the cap was somewhere north of the upper middle class. Enough money where you didn't ever really have to worry about bills or ever going broke, while also being able to travel and vacation several times a year.

    Past that point increasing the amount of money didn't increase the overall happiness of the person.

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

    Science says the money turns you into that, as well as them being more likely to get the money in the first place.

    It literally destroys your brain. The alienation from real life, from friction, from thinking.

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