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Money can absolutely buy happiness, but you have to be capable of feeling it. A trillion bucks would let anyone do amazing things that could make you incredibly happy.
However, the process of getting a trillion dollars requires that you're an evil psychopath incapable of experiencing pleasure.
Just think about how much happiness you'd get from:
Completely solving world hunger, single-handedly.
Massive vaccine roll-outs to eradicate or nearly eradicate some of the worst diseases.
Giving every single homeless person in the US a free house to live in.
So much hookers and blow.
And after all that, you'd still be a billionaire. Just getting started.
The world would also celebrate your existence, not despise you.
I think about this all the time. If he just built electrified trains everywhere in the world and ended world hunger, I wouldn't even bat an eye if he also wanted to start a weird sex cult (with consenting adults). Chute dude, i'd probably sign up to incubate one of his sons.
Your handle/name made your last sentence even more amazing.
Tbf if he just built electrified trains everywhere in the world, he'd run out of money before finishing a single continent.
Think about it: He doesn't have a trillion dollars (or even a few hundred billions) in liquid cash. It's all in the perceived value of Tesla, which is about 30x overvalued (price/earnings being around 300, 10 is considered a normal healthy value). The more electrified trains everywhere, the fewer cars needed.
Solving world hunger would get you an endless parade of pussy.
You wouldn't need hookers.
Bitches do be lovin food
lol
His dick dont werk tho
No one would need hookers everyone would be so well fed and happy and stress free that everyone would want to reproduce.
Fuck that. If I'm well fed and happy I'm going to want to keep rolling, not deal with some shitty screaming brat for years.
several billion more mouths to feed would start more problems
Dude could be universally loved and become a living saint if he spent his money for good. Instead he'll just be remembered as just another greedy pathetic rich asshole.
Legos and plastic kits!
You think anyone would feel any happiness for that if they are already a trillionare? he probably would be more worried about wasting his money.
If those people cared at all they would at least donate 1% of their income and donate more percentage as they get more money.
Best I can do is:
I'll take it.
He cant solve world hunger, money isnt the problem, and liquidating the stocks to do that would wipe out the value of what his stocks are worth leaving not enough money anyway.
Its an incredibly complex problem.
He could likely do something about it in specific isolated western countries though.
Thinking hookers are connected to happiness says no good things about you as a person, and I in no way mean that as a negative to sex workers.
What about blow?
Yeah I agree, if I was a billionaire I’d be spending a lot of money on things that don’t just benefit myself, and I’d hope that’d make me happy at least a little bit. I think the not having happiness part comes from the hoarding part of it.
But you wouldn't be a billionaire. There are people in the world that do good, they just don't get as rich because they care about people
Exactly. I believe that becoming a billionaire is necessarily a symptom of some kind of mental illness because of what it takes to do so. Most people would be unwilling to do it.
You’re probably right. I do wonder though if you could become a billionaire and outweigh the harm you have to do to become one once you achieve that marker but it’s certainly a tough question. Especially with no guarantee you’ll even make it to that height then you could become essentially evil for nothing. Plus who’s to say you don’t lose yourself in the process. The difference between a multimillionaire and a billionaire is certainly quite vast.
Except he doesn’t have a trillion dollars. He’s got assets he can borrow against that he claims are worth that much and people believe him.
While true, he's easily worth half that in accessible funds/loans.
There have been studies done that suggested money can buy happiness but only to a certain extent. I think the cap was somewhere north of the upper middle class. Enough money where you didn't ever really have to worry about bills or ever going broke, while also being able to travel and vacation several times a year.
Past that point increasing the amount of money didn't increase the overall happiness of the person.
Science says the money turns you into that, as well as them being more likely to get the money in the first place.
It literally destroys your brain. The alienation from real life, from friction, from thinking.
I can see that but, I'd rather have my brain destroyed by money than poverty. The constant hunt for your next meal or just a roof over your head. The constant anxiety for any kind of security at all.
Yeah I'll take the money path thanks.
Oh, who are you inheriting from?
Money doesn’t buy happiness, at least not in a healthy long-term way. What it does do however is eliminate sources of unhappiness.