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I don't get how they're so bitter and hateful. Happiness is some chemicals in the brain and money can definitely buy all of those.
They have the money and leverage to get whatever medications they want and hire a team of doctors to monitor them and keep them safe while abusing them to be the happiest people ever.
And they're buying a 12th yacht and another castle instead? Lame.
yes i think it belongs in the same category as hoarders. the moment you go over the means you need to survive/accumulsting more than you can use in a lifetime it should be considered a mental illness and should be treated as such.
tax the rich btw
Harlan Ellison had a story about success in Hollywood.
Imagine you're told that there's a perfect rosebush growing on top of a mountain. You're told that the smell of the flowers is the greatest thing you can possibly imagine and you;d be a fool not to try and scale the mountain.
The mountain is shit. Dog shit, monkey shit, human shit, gorilla shit, and every other kind of shit. A few thousand tons of other garbage, but mostly shit.
You climb and climb and climb. Days turn into weeks, weeks become years.
You finally reach the rose bush. It's as beautiful as they claimed. But you lost your sense of smell.
really good proverb. hits perfect.
what is really sad is how much is in life that are just as beautiful and easier to attain but you see these people who will just obsess about that rosebush
I think what we call happiness is comprised of more than what drugs can stimulate.
Life satisfaction, purpose, reciprocated love and connection, etc. - these are all things that are more cerebral than what even the best chemical cocktail can offer.
Then build better drugs.
It's a nice sentiment, but in the end those things all boil down to chemicals in the brain.
I'm not saying that administering a constantly rotating chemical buffet is the ideal way to experience life or happiness. But if you have hundreds of billions of dollars it certainly seems like it would be a better alternative than being a miserable prick.
Oh, for sure. For a lot of these guys, being sedated might be the better than their current state.
My point is just that even the best meds out there can't make you feel like your dad is proud of you, or that you have a loving family, or that your day to day work is meaningful to people. It's beyond the scope of modern psychiatric medicine, even though all of our mental existence is chemical.
Which is why it would be fantastic to be able to fund neuroscience research. I wouldn't say no to a discovery of the chemical that causes a strong feeling of "My dad is very proud of me even though I became a computer nerd instead of a car guy."
He's in his 70s so I was a bit too early for the stage where parents supported it as a money making career. I was just the goofy nerd with the taped together glasses living like a hermit playing midi files of songs I liked. There wasn't a lot of that proud parents feeling. :)
It would be the best selling drug on the market instantly, lol. I bet even dads of that gen felt similarly with their dads.
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Eh, that's a maybe, if you're rich. Not saying medication can't be useful, but the sane reaction to an insane world is also hard to deny.
If you're rich enough to have your own pharmacists and neuroscience research division along with doctors to monitor your health? Very definitely. You could set up a crop rotation of chemicals to keep you all sorts of happy without worries of major addiction to or mounting tolerance of any individual chemical, all while more are devised and tested.
It'd be some mighty blissy bliss. Tough to find much to complain about livin like that.