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Originally Posted by Ekco
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your basically asking me to explain to you the same incentives that cause people to become rich and successful in the first place, somehow don't apply to also wanting power and being the main character on planet fucking earth.
the notion you think any of these personality archetypes could ever be happy in obscurity on a island somewhere indicates you have no fucking concept of what motivates these people.
after like 50 million it doesn't do anything for your ego, it's why all these dudes are so active in the space race and other shit. but the scoreboard past 100 million is boring to them. even yesterday where the Oracle guy lost like 8 billion and zuckerberg went up 4, neither of them actually felt anything from that on a emotional level.
money doesn't buy happiness, power apparently at least makes you feel something.
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Well, we are both accusing one another of having the power of mind-reading. I am not a multi-billionaire, and I assume you aren't either. So all you or I can really do is speculate about the content of these people's minds and hearts. And if the purely cynical take is correct, it seems to me it would apply to every single public servant ever. I'm sure firefighters want to be thought of as some kind of relevant main character also.