Imagine having so much money you can buy love and happiness, but are so stupid you fail at both.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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You probably have to be one nasty motherfucker to continue after you have 1.000 Million dollars.
More is just even more mentaly ill people IMO
You have to love getting money more than any other thing.
Or, at least you have to love the things you need to do to get money. What given the things those people do, is even worse.
Eh, I think a million maybe 2 is still in the limits of life savings for a normal person to warrant comfy retirement
I think the parent commenter uses the decimal separator and means a billion dollars.
Ah yeah you're probably right
Yep, European here, sorry for the confusion.
Let's be generous and let people dream and make it a cap at around ten millions.
More is just bad for everyone.
I believe it was Robert Reich who spoke about the difference eif CEO in the 1970's were profit margins where in the 30-40% versus to now where the goal is 100%....
The thing is you can really only buy sycophants and pleasure, and the thing is that those aren’t love and happiness. Love and happiness are more easily found by finding equals
To a shallow person, it may as well be the same.
And yet he remains miserable and lonely
You can also buy yourself fewer hardships, less need, more choices. These may not directly be happiness but you’re removing obstacles to hapiness
Ya, but that only works up to maybe a million or so.
Money only buys happiness to up about like a 100k a year or so. I don't know it might be even more now, but definitely not over 200k.
It used to be roughly 70k USD and 50k EUR some 10 years ago when I read the study. That's the point at which you're financially secure enough to have your basics needs met and have enough over to climb towards self-actualization.
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum.
There's a lot of people that don't get the irony of that scene. Rorschach is a villain, just like the comedian was. There are no heroes in Watchmen.
the closest we get to a hero in the currently operative adventurers are niteowl ii and silk spectre, both of whom are aware they operate in the moral gray area of relativism and are constantly haunted by the question of whether or not what they do is right. as if to drive home that no, no it is not, they can't engage sexually until they engage in violence. they try to justify their actions as being the best thing they can do in the moment given the constraints of the scenarios they find themselves in, but ultimately their actions are selfish and self serving. in many ways, this is why the comedian laughs. this contradictory form of nihilism is the joke all the adventurers must grapple with. they each respond differently. silk spectre chooses not to analyze or engage with the joke, preferring not to get it. niteowl ii and rorschach are different versions of understanding the joke, and choosing to carry on as if it wasn't even the truth of their reality, choosing instead to lean into the philosophies they represent: relativism and objectivism, respectively. in walter kovacs telling mr manhatten to kill him, we see the failure of objectivism: objectivism leaves no room for making the best of a bad situation, de-emphasizing harm reduction and harm prevention in the name of righteousness. in niteowl ii's inaction, we see the failure of moral relativism. niteowl ii is driven to inaction by his inability to take any real kind of a moral stance.
watchmen is such a misunderstood comic…
Yes absolutely, even Nite Owl II is compromised and flawed. It's such a great comic.
It'd be a real hoot if Owl Boy stepped on me tho
Curtains.
But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci
Everybody's laughing at him but he's the saddest clown of the circus
More pixels. Fewer jpeg. Papa gofsckyourself.
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