Please sell off extra real estate. We're paying too much to live. Please stop figuring out ways to make more money. Enjoy your wealth. You don't need any more from our blood sweat and tears. We're already suffering enough at the whims of the idle rich.
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#892I have 500$ in my bank account and just got laid off. You can send me some money and get a sense of fulfillment you helped someone. Dont ever say you never had an opportunity to help anyone.
Anyway. As some people have touched on, service to others and evaluating unjust power structures can be a good place to look for fulfillment. Good luck
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#893The antidote to despair is action. I recommend volunteering to anyone who wants for meaning in their life.
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#894With that amount of money I'd just go to school. Volunteer here and there. Otherwise I'd lose my mind,
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#895Post-scarcity world will likely make these scenarios more common.
Post-scarcity world means that a large chunk of society has this kind of freedom, so there wouldn't be the same kind of isolation that goes along with currently being one of the few rich people.
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#896That kind of blog post never happened in the 1950 to 1980 era. It is so naive and selfish. But It might have been written in another era by Marie Antoinette. Avarice and decadence like this need to be taxed into oblivion
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#897I find that there are limitations of satisfaction from grand accomplishments or capitalistic success.
At the end of the day, we are born naked, die naked and decompose.
Doing what you want to do without some grand goals, interacting with others, helping others, joking around with friends and family with no other “grand” purpose, or just reconnecting with someone you haven’t for a while, all these things shouldn’t be tucked away completely in the name of “achieving more”.
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#898If you’re wondering why you still feel unsatisfied even after having gotten everything you’ve ever wanted and achieved everything you set out to do, consider reading about the story of Siddartha Gautama and his journey of discovery.
The answers you’ve been looking for are there.
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#899I struggle to understand stuff like this (to be honest, it makes me feel a little angry):
> We started getting into regular arguments, and I knew it wasn’t on her. It was me. I was starting to come to terms with all the mounting insecurities I had stuffed down over the past several years. I didn’t feel like I could work on them with her. So I broke things off after almost 2 years of unconditional love. It was extremely painful, but it was the right call. I needed to fully face myself.
Relational experiences are why and how you're encountering your repressed shadow or confronting the false self in the first place. Don't you face yourself by staying and accomplishing your promise of truthfulness and learn how to practice real love through e.g. honesty, courage,….
I found this lecture once on a webpage that has since disappeared....
"Enlightenment isn't a thing that you can get abandoning family and undertaking mountaineering asceticism. Enlightenment can be attained having family, and is a thing that cannot be attained through mountaineering asceticism. Enlightenment starts from accepting Truth and process of understanding Truth." https://web.archive.org/web/20090805085956/http://www.ircsc....
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#900I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitable exit is just one way to trigger that experience. In my experience, a lot of people who get into this state start self-sabotaging hard as a way of rejecting what feels, ironically, like losing control. Sudden freedom can fe…
> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone In my opinion, this is the big take here When you have enough money to not work, it becomes very lonely fast All of a sudden you have tons of time, but no one to share it with. Everyone is busy, mostly with work (also, most people probably can’t afford the same things you can) If you could coordinate to stop working at the same time as your significant other, and…
> When you have enough money to not work, it becomes very lonely fast
I haven't made enough to not work but once my US immigration was sorted out (H1B isn't very leisure compatible), I took a year off to rediscover what all passed me by when I was working.
This was a lot of alone time, but not true loneliness.
For example, I would set up lunch with a friend, they would bail due to work emergencies or something but I would go eat there anyway.
Quickly learned to go to a place where multiple people were scheduled anyway, like heading to Berkley for a tech talk on Byzantine block chains or vector search algorithms, hoping something would interest me.
> OP seems to be going through a belonging crisis. Trying to figure out what group he wants to belong to
The first three months were a strange struggle with my Ego, because a large part of my "Get up and do things" was the belief that what I had to do was very important to others and the whole world stops if I stop moving. To get through the waves in life without feeling self pity about it, I honestly felt my work was what made the sun rise and the rain fall.
Suddenly, my self importance was shot to pieces immediately.
I wasn't important anymore, what I did wasn't important to others but only to me. All the years of sacrificing my own wants (not needs) suddenly felt dissonant.
Plus a lot of activities aren't cumulative in the way work is - cooking dinner today does nothing for dinner tomorrow, there's no way to add up that to something.
Work is particularly rewarding because it checks those two boxes for me - it adds up to something, slowly every day, plus what I do is important to others in way where they want you to succeed (unlike say training for the SF marathon, where it's all "I could never" from people who could, but don't want to).
Eventually, I went back to work, but now I drink that workahol in moderation.