I firmly believe that there is a wealth threshold above which everyone gets brain worms and loses their grip on reality. I'm not sure what this threshold is or even if it's the same for every person. I'm just 100% sure that Mark Cuban has very much surpassed it.
We call it [bleep] you money, but what if it's also [bleep] me up money?
Why is everyone talking about that man did shark tank finally get cancelled
he made a dumb statement about sports
Boilonaiires they're just like us!
the difference is that when I say dumb things about sporps (which is often!) the news doesn't report it
Agreed! Prevention of extreme wealth accumulation is in everyone's best interest.
100000% agree
I think its different for every person and when it's acquired (or if you're born with it). There's so many stupid rich people things I look at that has no appeal to me whatsoever even if I had the money
I don’t have access to pubmed rn but there’s a psych study on this and the ballpark is only like a couple mil
I believe that. It just needs to be enough to short circuit regular behavioral feedback and consequences.
Thank you for reminding me to buy a couple of Powerball tickets so that I can test this theory personally.
I’ve always said that I’d give away 90-95% of it and live off the rest, but that’s me talking big when there’s roughly a 0% chance that I’d ever have to put that plan into action.
That's not a good way to do it. You'd get all the money at once, not knowing where the threshold is. That's why each of you need to give me all of your money in installments so we can determine where the threshold actually is.
This is just proper scientific method.
Ah, but what if I just keep it? You know, to be the control subject?
Oooo, what’s the powerball at this week?
$1.1 billion tonight
OOOOOO gotta get a ticket
1.1 beeeellion dollars
It’s the Arrested Development banana meme in real life.
oh my god have you seen the other ones it is so funny they have this thing when someone becomes crazy rich they auto become insane and the sister is on a date with a guy who this happens to during their date and it's just so funny
my bad it's the other two tv series on max or hbo or whatever it is now
We should test this threshold. For science. Quick, everyone give me all of your money. It's for science.
Numbers you’re supposed to give @miamurphy.net all your money so she can find out. We’ve covered this.
no
I assure you we’ve covered this.
gdi numbers I'm not giving you no tree fiddy
I think the same holds true for a culture. Rome, England, US ...
combine it with News Brain and there’s no chance
Every time I get paid for a big building invoice I think about cashing the check and abandoning my life and that's like $150k. I can't imagine having Mark Cuban money.
We should experiment, see how much wealth needs to be taken out in taxes until they revert to normal. It's the only humane solution.
Basically the only person immune seems to be Warren Buffett