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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It’s important to note that even with all that money he still is far less happy than the average American. Imagine having so much wealth, not knowing what to do with it, having spent it on a botched penis enlargement and now no amount of money can fix even that.

Not to mention that by now the list of failures and broken promises is getting very long: hyperloops to prevent investment into rail, colonies on mars to avoid deal with all the shit he’s help wrong on earth, full self driving if you don’t mention that full doesn’t mean full and the cemeteries full of people who have died believing it did mean that, and how could I forget

Lying about Epstein and rigging the presidential election so a childfucker can destroy the country you weren’t even born in and barely pay any taxes for.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

There was a 2010 study showing that money was correlated with happiness up to about $75k, then plateaued. The expectation was that once you could afford your needs and didn’t have to worry about the basics, the rest of happiness would come from the life you built.

Then a few years ago, all the headlines were screaming that it was debunked and money did in fact buy happiness. However, in true news media form, they screeched about the wrong thing - there was still a plateau, but it occurred past 100k. This isn’t really surprising - the cost of living certainly rose in the 13 years between the two studies. Inflation went nuts in the COVID era, and we definitely never deflated back.

But it does suggest how truly miserable some billionaires must be inside when they can’t find happiness with 10,000x more money than the average person’s threshold to find their joy.

[–] alanjaow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It makes it a little better. I appreciate the analysis. It's always good to get in something like "This too, shall pass."

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe he could try ending world hunger. Maybe that would make him happy. It would make other people happy at least

[–] III@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

How is solving world hunger going to make his penis normal again?