I've been dogsitting/house-sitting for some friends (a couple in their late 50s) this week. They're wonderful people and we get along well, though their combined net worth is easily like 100x mine (so, technically 50... cuz there's two of them!)
Relevant because their house is in-sane.
... and it's remarkably how little it affects me. This is just not what I value, not what makes a dent in my life or mental state.
It was pretty shocking to me how quickly life here in this comparative palace of a place became quotidian — eat, sleep, work out, listen to Bitcoin podcasts, bathroom breaks, play chess on my phone (#853488). The human universals, I'm guessing, are the same in the elite echelons of society as they are for me.
A similar question came up in JRE today too (well, I guess yesterday) with the TRIGGERnometry guys Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster. Konstantin asked Joe Rogan:
"You've made a lot of money. How have you dealt with that?"
Joe thought for a minute and then responded that it hadn't. First he said that it was because he works out so much... "therefore regular life doesn't freak me out so much."
But then he added something quite insightful:
"You might think that it's the numbers in the bank account that counts, but what really counts is how you feel, how you're handling life"
Whatcha think, Stackers?
In some sense, this is Svetski's great question in The Bushido of Bitcoin (#861088): what exactly do we do when bitcoin wins? Do we, like @DarthCoin (#926641), just become another generation of boomers who screw over the next ones, or do we build something more permanent/proper/"fair"?