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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 33 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 1 fun34 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I honestly think it's sad to see people with so much wealth so miserable when they could negligibly impact their overall happiness or wellbeing while helping countless other people. Money doesn't buy happiness, they say, but it actually can for a lot of people. Money can't buy happiness for those who have exorbitant amounts of it, but money can buy happiness for those struggling to make ends meet while living at or near poverty.

These miserable rich assholes wouldn't be any more miserable if they only had 20% of their income and actually worked for a living, but that other 80% could do a lot of good

[–]ChodeSandwichtender and moist 16 insightful - 5 fun16 insightful - 4 fun17 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Apparently "wealth psychology" and "wealth therapists" are an emerging thing but how do you get people to use these services in the first place? There's a lot of people involved in managing this much money, and those people don't want their clients going to a therapist and getting generous ideas.

[–]nautilistic 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention there's probably lot of snake oil merchants in that sector.

[–]eddyelric 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kinda like the art therapist from the movie Parasite (2019). Honestly, I don't blame them.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Ironically, that may be one reason they need a therapist in the first place: people only like them for their money.

The current state of affairs in the world is a terrible hand for all of us to have been dealt, and more recent events in the last couple decades haven't done anything to help. Un F-ing the world is going to be a difficuld and many part process that requires the elimination of many systems, cultures, and organizations that govern the way people behave. Just one of those is going to be the cycle of people gaining lots of wealth and then it ruining their happiness

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't go as far to say they are miserable. But like all things, wealth has diminishing returns to happiness. Maybe they do need some non-sedentary work. I heard from someone here that hard manual labour helps with dysphoria and making people more comfortable with their own bodies. I wonder why that is?