it's funny how, after a certain point, money doesn't necessarily make you happier, smarter, or more fulfilled, and the only real difference between a famous billionaire and an anon millionaire is whether you get to be in public without your photo being taken or being accosted by strangers.

I suppose what I'm saying is that - if you remove the need for stuff, expensive shit, things that only serve the purpose of luxury for luxury's sake - you're still left with a baseline of experiences that you either now have access to or lose access to.

I think this is why the richer you are, the more out of touch you appear to everyone else, which is fascinating in some ways but essentially non-essential in that sweet spot where you have enough to live the best life you can live but not so much that there's a target on your head and you can't do normal people shit anymore.

to be clear, I've never actually envied mega mega rich people; I think they become who they are because they otherwise live pretty isolating and miserable lives. everything has to be private, you can't go anywhere with security guards, and everybody is so far up the asshole of your business that you get paranoid.

it's as if there's really no value to having more money after a certain point except as a social currency, wherein you can be the envy of your friends or family or maybe the whole world. but with all the vapidness we see these days, my question is why anyone would want to be envied by vapid people?

people who are internally wealthy - and perhaps also externally wealthy *enough* - don't seem to envy megabillionaires precisely because they've lost the one thing thing that makes life actually interesting: the ability to speak to and be around normal humans who won't alter their behaviors or opinions to appease others, and those conversations that give life meaning because it's shared amongst a collective whose struggles haven't been prematurely mitigated by wealth.

those are the best experiences to learn from, imo, and all else is some degree of show-and-tell; or, a flex that is quickly forgotten and not especially relatable.

so if you're frustrated at the way it seems to be harder and harder to have a meaningful effect on people the wealthier you are, maybe think about the fact that it's because you may no longer speak the language of the masses as good as you thought.

one, just because you came from the hood doesn't mean you're still One Of Us; and two, anonymity and humility aren't mutually exclusive. imo, it actually takes far more humility to remain anonymous than it does to nauseatingly self-promote until the world begrudgingly brands you with its explicit endorsements.

for all we know, those days could be completely over and nobody except that fiscal ruling class could care about the material trappings of status, or of the out-of-touch, grandiose missions which conveniently point to a problem that's been chewed up and spit out into the baby bird's mouth and a solution which is equally and easily regurgitated.

anyways, it's pretty fun planting the seeds of discontent with these nonsensical Ruling Techniques by the Ruling Elites of our time. plus, there's not actually a more important goal in terms of governance than the one which sets us all free from our slavemasters. it may not even be relevant to tear the system down completely either if it's quite clearly hellbent on destroying itself from the inside.

interestingly enough, it would seem that the wealthier you get, the less effective you are at changing the world in the most meaningful of ways. why? because the inner circle and outer circle is a collar around your neck and people in those social scenes are more than happy to yank the leash to ensure you never become affected by the blissful energy of anons who are more concerned about their own families and livelihoods than some billionaire's woefully addictive gambling on some basically irrelevant Master Plan.

anyone with a Master Plan, by the way, is just a salesperson for a future that could be far better planned without the continuous infestation of elitist propaganda.

if it's not by the people, then it's not for the people.