Chira numbuh wan!

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well then call me skeptical that he's willing to endure an unprecedented risk of assassination not to mentioning the myriad headaches of leading any country, much less the US, all in order to... what, inflate his net worth? Dude could have been living on easy street on an island somewhere in perpetuity like 30 years ago.

Doesn't explain the elon question either. Rich people can still act out of principle, I know that's somehow gauche to even suggest.

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.