Billionaire Anthroplogy (1 Viewer)

[seanc]

I'm so rich I can post twice.

 

[seanc]

That's interesting.

I'm filing that under 'things that are so well explained i'm going to convince myself I already knew it"

I'd advise reading the whole transcript. i had a different voice in my head.

But I thought it was interesting, when you consider Bezos et al, that a nice experience on a jet leads to megalomania.

As an aside, yerman outta Wolf of Wall Street still only travels by private jet, even though all his profits only go to paying back all the people he fucked over. In a legal sense he has less money than me. He says it's because he's quite busy. I dunno, that's a different thing maybe.

 

[ann post]

i had a different voice in my head.

OR ?

 

[ann post]

It's a good read

Why Do Billionaires Go Crazy?

Tina Brown on how extreme wealth warps minds. Plus: hopes and fears after Trump’s strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

www.theatlantic.com

I've no idea why i didn't just listen to it thought

 

[nuke terrorist]

It's a good read

Why Do Billionaires Go Crazy?

Tina Brown on how extreme wealth warps minds. Plus: hopes and fears after Trump’s strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

www.theatlantic.com

I've no idea why i didn't just listen to it thought

Frum's opening spiel on Iran is delusional. Never mentioned Palestine as he blindly supports Israel.
They are both up to their necks in trad American elite political / media crap but congratulate themselves for observing some absurdities of it and having more awareness than Trump's crew.

 

[therealjohnny]

A project I worked on was aimed at elite members of some financial institution. They were the type who would get N Sync to play their daughter's 11th birthday and on a whim could travel anywhere in the world as a plane would be waiting for them whenever they fancied it and airport security was not a thing.

 

[therealjohnny]

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[ann post]

Frum's opening spiel on Iran is delusional. Never mentioned Palestine as he blindly supports Israel.
They are both up to their necks in trad American elite political / media crap but congratulate themselves for observing some absurdities of it and having more awareness than Trump's crew.

The piece is about Trump and billionaires and between recording and publishing the Iran strikes happened. It's just a context intro

 

[taubstumm]

once did some work for an extremely wealthy eurotrash type, who had got into yoga and mindfulness and not wearing shoes, that kind of thing. he had an occasional side gig being a therapist of sorts for other extremely wealthy people. once it was explained to me it made a certain kind of sense. plenty of rich people are miserable, some of them want therapy, but if you are extremely rich and you want some kind of way to be emotionally on-the-level with your therapist, you need your therapist to also be extremely wealthy.

 

[magicbastarder]

probably mentioned before, but i went to school with a lad whose dad was (is) a billionaire. i think he (the lad i was at school with) was less affected by money in a way than the guys whose parents were millionaires, because money had become like water to he and his family, it had ceased to matter. some of the guys whose parents were mere millionaires wanted you to know they had money.

though i guess when you're as rich as he was, you *don't* want people to know you have money; especially in the 80s when kidnappings for ransom were still fresh in the mind; the whole don tidey affair had happened only 5 years before i started secondary school.

 

[nuke terrorist]

The piece is about Trump and billionaires and between recording and publishing the Iran strikes happened. It's just a context intro.

I've rarely read a comment I disagree with more. Frum and Brown are themselves dangerously out of touch throughout their conversation.
Frum said as a neo con, Trump attacking Iran made him feel weird - for praising Trump - not because it was a horrendous war crime.

Somebody posted this on Thumped in 2021. A counselor to the ultra rich mentions the lives of children of billionaires being particularly empty and useless.

I’m a therapist to the super-rich: they are as miserable as Succession makes out | Clay Cockrell

Many billionaires I work with have trust issues, lack a sense of purpose and struggle with shame, guilt and fear, says psychotherapist Clay Cockrell

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian have done a few articles on this over the years. Google search:
"billionaire counselor Guardian"

Google Search

 

[JohnnyRaz]

once did some work for an extremely wealthy eurotrash type, who had got into yoga and mindfulness and not wearing shoes, that kind of thing. he had an occasional side gig being a therapist of sorts for other extremely wealthy people. once it was explained to me it made a certain kind of sense. plenty of rich people are miserable, some of them want therapy, but if you are extremely rich and you want some kind of way to be emotionally on-the-level with your therapist, you need your therapist to also be extremely wealthy.

I think that's a sentiment Freud could have gotten behind.

 

[ann post]

I've rarely read a comment I disagree with more. Frum and Brown are themselves dangerously out of touch throughout their conversation.
Frum said as a neo con, Trump attacking Iran made him feel weird - for praising Trump - not because it was a horrendous war crime.

Yes. I can just read it as it is because i want the insight into billionaires brains. I've lived in america, twice, lots of people think like that. they are 100% in touch with the environment they are functioning in - I don't have to agree with every single thing they say, and all told I've a fair idea that what is making you angry about it is that you don't often read outside an echo chamber?

I'm not even sure how you can agree/disagree with a contextual intro. The guy lays out exactly who he is and his political outlook, lays out what went down, lays out his relationship with the interviewee so you can proceed into it with 100% knowledge of who is steering the thing. Do you dislike that he's transpartent or is it just a cognitave dissonance buzz?

 

[nuke terrorist]

Yes. I can just read it as it is because i want the insight into billionaires brains. I've lived in america, twice, lots of people think like that. they are 100% in touch with the environment they are functioning in - I don't have to agree with every single thing they say, and all told I've a fair idea that what is making you angry about it is that you don't often read outside an echo chamber?

I'm not even sure how you can agree/disagree with a contextual intro. The guy lays out exactly who he is and his political outlook, lays out what went down, lays out his relationship with the interviewee so you can proceed into it with 100% knowledge of who is steering the thing. Do you dislike that he's transpartent or is it just a cognitave dissonance buzz?

Thanks for acknowledging some of this.

The US corporate media flood us with similar agendas to Frum and Tina Brown. They just have slightly more self awareness.

 

[ann post]

Thanks for acknowledging some of this

what part didn't i acknowledge?

 

[ann post]

I think that's a sentiment Freud could have gotten behind.

TBH i kinda get it in some ways.

was talking to someone i know who uses a wheelchair recently and they were talking about a call they got about getting a new chair. their overall estimation of the call was A: the person administering the chairs had never used one and B: the person who administered the chairs had a perception that if you use a chair, you exist only between the house, the post office and supervalue and have no hobbies or mates or whatever.

so in that way, someone who hasn't had to basically deal with being human for a while, if they are looking for a relatable therapist how are they gonna really be understood by someone drive themselves and make their own lunch and have to think about money.

I'm not saying billionaires are fucking great here btw - with my own chronic pain condition i've had multiple moments of 'have your tried paracetemol' for 20 years - and i'm not really annoyed to some degree because unless you've lived it, it is very hard to explain in a reliable way.

So i sorta get these billionares living in fairytale castle land not wanting a support system from another unrelateable world.

 

[nuke terrorist]

what part didn't i acknowledge?

They are living in a delusional corporate world.
It is not possible to avoid people like Frum and Brown - they are lackeys to corporate control of the media.

 

[ann post]

They are living in a delusional corporate world.
It is not possible to avoid people like Frum and Brown - they are lackeys to corporate control of the media.

You didn't mention that before now. Sorry for not pre-emptively acknowledging what you were going to say in the future.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Criticising folks who like Jeff Bezos can never be overdone.
I'll say these things if no one else does.

 

[ann post]

Criticising folks who like Jeff Bezos can never be overdone.
I'll say these things if no one else does.

Loads of people are saying these things all the time.

Criticising people is EASY.

For example you are criticizing me for not taking on board something you didn't say about an article i didn't share on a thread about studying billionares as an outcrop of the human experience.

My attempt at comprehending this is that you are used to environments where people criticise bezos all day without going any further in the thought process, and because that article took you somewhere you are not used to, it's my fault.

Getting locked in 'i don't like billionaires' is easy. I'm more interested in learning whats going wrong with them as people at this point.