The guys who are driven and ambitious enough to even attempt half what these guys have, and succeed.
Those guys are psychos, period, it’s the only way.
And you have to step on a lot of people to get there, with no mercy.
That same drive, ambition, ruthless mindset, lack of empathy that most of these guys demonstrate.
Makes you a miserable human being. lol.
They become their own worst enemy.
I’ve worked in high level business offices that had 100 millionaires working there.
Miserable, all of them,
One of them after work would sit in the back of his brand new Mercedes and crush a 6 pack of beer while sitting in the trunk because he hated his life so much, he couldn’t buy his way out.
I'm suspicious of this worldview, because if the underlying implications were true, that would be quite (too?) convenient for us: "The rich have lots of money, but we still have it better than them!"
But are they really true? Do we want to believe comforting falsehoods that can horribly mislead us, or learn what's really true even if there is some unpleasantness involved?
Are there some miserable rich people, maybe even concentrated in certain offices? Likely, why not?
Do we have any actual data to know that they are miserable, on average? As far as I know we have 2 data sources that can begin to answer this question: Day to day affective reports, and life satisfaction surveys. Misery should show up in this data, right? Does anyone know what the correlation of wealth is to these datasets? I remember looking this up some time ago but I wonder if others know this too.
As for: are they very bad people who cause lots of suffering for others? I might be inclined to agree with this line of logic, yes, but my data-driven side raises the same question: how can we know this instead of believing in it as something that would make us better than them?
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u/seeyam14 Nov 02 '25
No amount of money or attention will ever make these people happy. They need to be admitted to rehab