This is what ‘money can’t buy happiness’ used to, and should be, about. Construing it to mean that the rest of us should feel content living paycheck to paycheck (or worse) is gross. It’s true that you can want for nothing and still be miserable, though.
facts, getting a shitload of money does help put into perspective what’s important though…if your not a complete asshole.
as a former wagie, that feeling going from knowing exactly how little every day of your life is worth to never needing to do another day of work you don’t want is…incredible.
noone born into wealth can ever get that feeling
money can’t make you happy when money didn’t make you unhappy, but it can relieve a lot of the misery inflicted by material conditions
That is one thing that I don’t get. There is so much quotes and ideas that are just manipulated out of spite to target the working class. It’s like the “elites” are really on the sidelines while we’re fighting our own people.
Even “carbon footprint” is a quote fabricated to put the wrong doings of the petroleum industry on us.
almost like…media as a whole is owned by a handful of rich cunts with a history of weaponizing psychology/human emotion
More like:
Headache from doing blow last evening
GF turned 25 and thus became too old
still cringes inside from his acting role in titanic
How many times do you think his gfs have asked him to recreate various scenes from his films, particularly titanic?
I think the women he goes after are too young to have watched titanic nowadays lol
I wonder how much of that “money can’t buy happiness” thing that many famous actors and musicians go on about is really about how their specific industries suck. Like, Hollywood seems super toxic, and between all the drugs and the extensive touring, the rockstar life doesn’t really look so hot, either. And most of them are still basically employees, even if they’re a thousand times richer than the avergage joe. I wonder if the actual owners of all the film studios and record labels are miserable, too?
I think it’s that once you’re wealthy enough to spend all your time doing whatever you want firstly you probably broke your brain and soul to get there and secondly you probably are just going to burn out on pleasure.
Like, I love me some cheap and easy pleasures. I’ve enjoyed orgies and I’ve drank my way into nights where all I remember is that I had fun. But simple pleasures and nice things are enhancements to a happy life. You need more which may ironically mean pursuing the middle way, or it may just mean learning to cherish a simple night in with a loved one.
you probably broke your brain and soul to get there
Sounds like it doesn’t really apply to people who enjoy hereditary wealth, which is actually most of the really rich people. Of course, it’s possible that the same issue applies at the family level - in order to become and stay a wealthy family, you might need to be fucked up in some ways.
rich people go to great lengths to grow sociopathic replacements, is why class conscious traitors like luigi are so vilified
From what I read about him, Luigi never really counted as rich anyway. He wasn’t exactly poor, but he was much closer to poverty than to becoming a billionaire.
everything above working class is rich, trust me.
nobody who is rich will ever truly know the feeling of how it feels to need to work to live, unless they seriously fuck up amd lose everything with zero support.
that switch from survival mode chasing $ to being able to choose when/what you work on is indescribable
least in the US, where there are practically zero support mechanisms in most of the country
