From Careless People.
It doesn’t sound enticing, but also you do not need to be a multi-millionaire to do those things. Let’s analyze them.
Travelling. Travelling is simultaneously good and overrated. It does open one’s mind if done right, but you don’t need to overdue it to understand different perspectives. And if you do it to simply add the most expensive hotels on your resume and do nothing by a pool, you might as well not travel. You’re just wasting money (and will get bored).
Personal goals of being in shape is cheap as hell. Just move and don’t eat too much, all the time. That’s about it. Again, no need to be ultra rich for that.
Buying an expensive hobby. It might feel good for a hot second, but we all know someone who did that and has their expensive hobby sitting there, collecting dust.
Start-up. What is there to start in 2025? Nothing.We have services and businesses for absolutely everything and anything. And the goal for a start-up is to get swallowed by a giant for the biggest number possible, to do what? Buy a 8th house you never go to?
Philanthropy. The most boring and dull and kind of inefficient venture, sure. That stuff has never changed anything. It looks good on you though.
Those young multi-millionaires are aimless. Don’t have any real sense of what it takes for the world to work the way it is (hint: tons of unpaid labor; advice: change that).
So not only it is dramatic that those folks fuck up the world through social media, their wealth is idiotic and doesn’t make them happy.
Because happiness is a process, not a pre-processed destination.
And today the status/hierarchy game is irrelevant.