I realized today, it’s been a minute since I head the “glass is actually a very slow moving liquid” myth from someone. Just wondering if there’s been anything else like this since you were a kid.
I realized today, it’s been a minute since I head the “glass is actually a very slow moving liquid” myth from someone. Just wondering if there’s been anything else like this since you were a kid.
That you get more conservative as you get older. Really it’s because boomers have been getting wealthier as they get older. Everyone else I know has only gotten more radicalized against the class war.
On a similar note, that money doesn’t buy happiness. While technically true (see: Musk), it buys security and stability, which are prerequisites for happiness
Yeah the conservative thing has been so wild to me since I never saw my immigrant parents or millenial friends gain a ton of wealth or get more conservative. The political ideology is very clearly tied to wealth but I’m seeing even wealthier parents of friends not buying into it because they see how badly the economy has been fucked for their children and grandchildren.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but lack of money is a roadblock to happiness
Money also gives you access to resources to help you recover quickly and effectively.
Money also brings positive attention.
In another universe Musk is just a lonely incel. But as a billionaire there’s an endless line of celebrities, gold diggers, porn stars, prostitutes etc lining up to please his every whim.
That was definitely only a boomer and older gen X thing.
Yeah I’ve come to accept that there’s an amount of money needed to get comfortable. But when you get there, any surplus will not bring any happiness and might even inspire egoism and jealousy. But there is a line.
deleted by creator