I've always felt these stories can be summarized as happiness or fulfillment is derived from the (positive) rate of change in circumstances rather than the achievements a person has in a point in time, money or otherwise. Even if you have millions in your pocket but that amount is not changing or you don't have a way to make it go up, you won't be happy for long. Same goes for a less wealthy person who is moving up in their career or their life-goals, they would be happy from experiencing positive change.
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#922Your capital has made you lonely, moreover, redundant as you have no needs. You cannot be coerced into a job, medical bills are no bankruptcy inducing issues for you (which is rather boring too), no need to work for the man.
And like a chipmunk sitting on a mountain of nuts anyone you meet wants one so nobody acts normal. Again how sad and lonely.
me i live in a blue collar neighborhood with people getting by and we look after each others kids and pets and gossip and share tools - trying not to sound too romantic but that's how it is. Sometimes I sweep the streets because I like it. Please enjoy your capital. I’m not jealous at all, why should I? Don’t want to be a Midas, everything golden and hungry. I have community purpose and people to look after. For me, that’s wealth.
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#923Read your blog post backwards. Paragraph by paragraph and you get the answer to your intrinsic question. And btw it would be a much better read at the same time
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#924I retired four years ago just before hitting 50 years of age. There is no real purpose and never was. I got my degree, worked in a field I loved. I was good at it, learned and was successful. But there never was any real purpose except personal growth and being challenged in my field of expertise. I've seen CEOs come and go, engineers much smarter than me leave and poor replacements being hired. Nothing ever really c…
It's not that warm in Spain right now though. Maybe canary islands?
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#925having a lot of money is crazy because there is literally nothing to do. there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. if you sit around all day then people who work at local restaurants will start to know you and people here and there will start to recognize you from wandering around between your haunts every day. its such a weird feeling when you realize that the world isnt as big as you thought it was. before…
I mean if you develop good hobbies or sports that are never ending like running, you can run yourself physically tired everyday which will help a lot.
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#927I believe one of the founders of Booking.com has had some similar experience (source: "De Machine", the book about Booking.com) and after 4 years of travelings & yoga etc. he sneaked back in into the company. Most of his coworkers do not know he's a founder. He's been fixing Perl bugs, writing scripts and coding some features at least for some years (maybe he's moved on already, don't know, the book is a couple of ye…
Maybe he’s just a sadist who wanted to return to implementing dark patterns to abuse his customer base into panic-booking hotels.
https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipula...
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#928I retired four years ago just before hitting 50 years of age. There is no real purpose and never was. I got my degree, worked in a field I loved. I was good at it, learned and was successful. But there never was any real purpose except personal growth and being challenged in my field of expertise. I've seen CEOs come and go, engineers much smarter than me leave and poor replacements being hired. Nothing ever really c…
Hell yeah dude. Have fun!
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#929I 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…
I read somewhere there are old money people in Europe faking that they are “working class” - not really to hide the fact that they are rich - to have people to hang out with in general.
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#930I am poor and have no idea what to do.
So you are good! ;-)