• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 天前

    Well yeah, there’s only so much you can do to fix mental and personality issues. The things wrong with Elon cannot be fixed by money alone.

    For us normal folks though? You just TRY to be unhappy while getting your dick sucked by a supermodel in your million dollar Ferrari parked in front of your mansion the size of a French palace. Physically impossible.

    • Englishgrinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      23 小時前

      I disagree - I could easily be unhappy in that scenario and I think I’m pretty normal*. I get that normal is subjective, but I’m not like on medication, or in treatment for anything.

      I think I would immediately be really insecure about having to buy sex and how the only reason people love me is my money and I’m incapable of intimacy from a genuine place. I think I would immediately feel shame at having purchased a Ferrari while not knowing anything about cars. I think I would feel guilty having a big house to live in all by myself, and probably would never buy it to begin with.

      That isn’t to say I couldn’t make myself happy with money -I could give a fuckton of it away to worthy causes and basically feel good about myself immediately despite not really working very hard or personally accomplishing much. That feels like a cheat code to me. “Yeah, I didn’t lose twenty pounds this year like I wanted or write my novel despite having tons of free time, but I gave away a Billion Dollars to cancer research and another Billion to RAICES and another Billion to the ACLU and another Billion to the Trevor Project. So basically, I’m fucking awesome.” But even then, I think over like a decade or similar, the lack of personal involvement would eventually make me embarrassed.

      I think that’s why hiring sycophants (or now building them from AI) is such a popular remedy for the obscenely wealthy. A chorus of voices to drown out your own insecurity about how you didn’t earn it, didn’t use to better yourself, didn’t find real happiness. And why reality checks drive these people nuts.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    192·
    3 天前

    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.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      96·
      3 天前

      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.

      • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 天前

        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.

        • cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          2 天前

          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.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            23 小時前

            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.

      • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 天前

        Solving world hunger would get you an endless parade of pussy.

        You wouldn’t need hookers.

      • Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 天前

        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.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 天前

        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.

      • M137@lemmy.today
        54·
        3 天前

        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.

    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      3 天前

      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.

      • TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org
        16·
        3 天前

        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

        • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 天前

          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.

        • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          3 天前

          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.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 天前

      Money doesn’t buy happiness, at least not in a healthy long-term way. What it does do however is eliminate sources of unhappiness.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      9·
      3 天前

      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.

    • cavitationfetishist01@quokk.auEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      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.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 天前

        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.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 天前

    He is only 55! Thats a rough 55 for having all the money in the world. I don’t mean go get plastic surgery, but you would think he would be able to take better care of himself. Man, imagine what he would look like if he was never rich? For starters no hair.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    106·
    3 天前

    Never forget that Elon is such a colossal looser, that even Epstein, the most despicable piece of shit on earth, wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.

    This is the type of special that Elon brings to the world.

    • yogurt@lemmy.world
      52·
      2 天前

      One time Elon posted about how he can’t be out of touch because his grandmother was poor, and his “mom” immediately replied and agreed with him, but it sounded like she was confusing his dad’s mom with her own mom, so everybody assumes Elon was posting as her and fucked it up.

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
      603·
      3 天前

      Yes, i wondered the same. I don’t want to assume this is correct just because it fits into my worldview.

      I did a bit of digging. This post is bullshit. There are multiple photos from the event and the cake around. And the account, as far as is can tell, is run by his mother.

      • Stern@lemmy.world
        211·
        2 天前

        Plenty of real stuff we can still hate him for though: the video game cheating, transphobia, epstein stuff, transphobia, doge, list goes on

      • wulrus@lemmy.world
        134·
        2 天前

        The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.

        But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.

        Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.

        This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don’t want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.

        And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.

        • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 天前

          have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.

          Of course they have the “right”. That doesn’t mean anyone has to support it.

          But, yes, there are plenty of true reasons to hate and mock this asshole without making shit up.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    371·
    3 天前

    I see no friends and family in those pictures. Even his a.i. generated fantasies make him look like a loser.

    (edit: fixed typo. Thanks, hperrin)

  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    2 天前

    I’m 99.9% sure you are right on this. Just to be sure, would anyone mind giving me a few billion dollars for a Brewster’s Millions type of experiment?

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    3 天前

    I live in a so-called progressive blue state that has a lot of Democrats. I see more and more of them driving new Teslas around. To me, all Tesla owners—especially those who purchased their vehicle in the last couple years—are just authoritarian Trump supporters. Prove me wrong.

    • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip
      51·
      3 天前

      I live in the south and just spent a week in the PNW. While the lack of lifted trucks was nice, there wereso many damn Cybertucks and model Ys. I rarely see a CT here but they were everywhere out there. It was wild. Beautiful place though.