It is peak fiat to chase net worth.
A wealthy and accomplished person should be able to make choices based on personal preferences and not purely based on increasing net worth.
A mindset like this is why we don't have enough wealthy people doing interesting things with their wealth.
The wealthy from the Renaissance period were patrons to the arts but the fiat mindset today makes the wealthy of our time pathetic by comparison.
The wealthy of our time are mostly that way because they’re grifters. Think of Elon Musk becoming rich through government subsidies. Think of Nancy Pelosi getting rich off insider trading. Think of Jamie Dimon getting rich off a banking ponzi. Grifters have a personality flaw. They provide no value, they are no better than parasites. How can they create art?
Grifters are not like the rest of the population. These people are psychopaths that lack empathy. They can extort you of money without feeling any remorse.
The wealthy among the middle class are mostly gone now. Bitcoin gives the opportunity to generate wealth back to the average individual. Confusing this drive for wealth with a psychopathic grifter’s inability to provide anything valuable (e.g. art) is not a fair comparison.
The desire for wealth is not the same as the desire to extort. Surprised to see people shame the desire for wealth as evil or bad. Seems very Marxist.
If you think entrepreneurs like Elon musk can be equated to the Nancy pelosi archetype you're retarded.
If you think he only became wealthy due to government subsidies, you're a Marxist retard.
wealth is not needing a phone, kids that adore you, and a eventually, a crowded funeral wake.
I fear funeral attendence 50 years from now will be 0 for the majority of humans.
The Renaissance patrons were chasing notoriety, re: "clout".
Just look at the story of Galileo.
I'm sure they were douchebags in their own special ways too. Chasing notoriety through building great works of art, doesn't seem too bad.
It just feels like the rich of our time are purely chasing fiat wealth #NgU. They are literally chasing to be the first Trillionaire, whatever that will accomplish for them.
