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> Rich people telling others how to live their lives has been going on for a loong time Sigh, The Taliban aren't rich but they specialise in telling people how to live their lives. At gunpoint.
They capture the means of production through force, does that not make them rich, relatively?
Self made rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through a combination of hard work and luck. But you need to do a lot of work to be able to recognize and take advantage of luck when it presents itself, plus the risk taking mentality. There is a very big difference from a rich doctor or lawyer and a wealthy entrepreneur. I don’t believe that all rich people “exploited” those that work for them. Pri…
> "Self made" rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through luck FTFY. Give me the name of a self-made rich person and I'll tell you how they either a) weren't as self-made as their hagiobiography says or b) were luckier than they admit.
>> I mean they become rich by putting everything on backseat That's a pretty big assumption
Now picture the worst episode of "Hoarders", and imagine all that weird obsessiveness and attachment to the thing.
That's rich people.
I will rather believe in what rich people are saying than people who are teaching philosophy for money
I mean, if you are unable to explain something as entry-level as Descartes' "cogito", its limits and what that entails, why it engender dualism, i'd rather not listening to you talking about consiousness. You don't have to read Chalmels (you should, but you don't HAVE to)(Btw i'm more of an illusionist myself, i don't suscribe to Chalmels thesis), but not knowing the classics is disqualifying.
What does the word "teaching" mean in the context of this post? Writing blog posts? If you want to learn about moral/life philosophy, then there are some great free courses on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics If someone else wants to read Paul Graham's blog I do not see the issue...
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Self made rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through a combination of hard work and luck. But you need to do a lot of work to be able to recognize and take advantage of luck when it presents itself, plus the risk taking mentality. There is a very big difference from a rich doctor or lawyer and a wealthy entrepreneur. I don’t believe that all rich people “exploited” those that work for them. Pri…
> "Self made" rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through luck FTFY. Give me the name of a self-made rich person and I'll tell you how they either a) weren't as self-made as their hagiobiography says or b) were luckier than they admit.
I'm only mildly annoyed when 20 something kids with huge amounts of generational wealth feel like they've got deep insights. Look everyone has opinions and knowledge and I'm sure there is value to it. This behavior shouldn't surprise you... positions of power have always felt self importance and a desire to espouse their ideas either as a means to make their egos feel good or simply cast themselves in a positive ligh…
The last one I read was literally (not exaggerating) "Grandma gave me a condo as a graduation gift (!) and instead of living in it like a chump I turned it into an income stream by renting it out while mom and dad covered all my living expenses. Aren't I smart?" (Ok, the last sentence was an exaggeration)
Implied but unstated is "you can do it too, just make better decisions."
In this way, for example, I learned that 99% of the time it makes little sense to get confrontational but it's better (for both sides) to try to resolve things peacefully. I tried both approaches repeatedly and that's why I know this. But if I wrote it down, why would anyone believe me? How would it change things if I made a lot of money or not? It makes no sense.
Everybody needs to put these things to test and see for themselves how they feel when they do good things, when they do bad things, what works in the long run and so on. Reading others reflections might be inspiring at times but rarely corresponds to specific real-life situations we need to deal with.