alot of wealth is timing.
luck, and timing.
dont assume a persons opinion is more valuable or insightful because they have money.
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Oddly people are also pretty tolerant of someone’s manipulative or exploitative tendencies if they’re wealthy.
it’s something isn’t it?
I'm not sure if you've ever listened to the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, but I'm always struck by his level-headed and non-judgmental description of how humans can be duplicitous.
“The very things that make you so intelligently adaptive simultaneously make you vulnerable to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”
It’s not an endorsement, or an excuse, it’s a warning.
That quote came from his Awakening From the Meaning Crisis lecture series which nostr:npub1h2sfcqslrmsmrkchapkpmvqj9fr662jdeaftjyuma8kmfmdpcspsgazhwd did a wonderful job summarizing here
oh wow, thank you!
nice to see other people digging those notes besides me 😅