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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 152 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those are very reasonable salaries to me. What's insane and should never exist is those who make $200 million a year. Like who needs this much money? What are you gonna do with all of it? Does it even matter how much money you have after a certain amount? I think at a certain point it becomes some kind of disorder or a mental illness to pursue more and more money. Give me $100k a year and I'll be a happy, very happy camper.

Edit: to be more clear, I'm talking about where I live currently. $100k where I live would put me in a very comfortable spot financially. My bad, everyone.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

All that extra money seems to be a detriment. People seem to be less empathetic and just use that money to get more money.

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of what Warren Zevon had to say about rich people problems, off Preludes. It came out a few years after his death, and the back half of the album has snippets from some radio interview(s?) he did. Neat musings by a complex dude: he was creative genius in a lot of ways, and a titanic asshole in a lot of other ways (he asked his ex-wife to write his biography, and to not go easy on him - alcoholism, violence, absentee parenting...it's all there).

Anyway, that's a preface for the folks who don't know about him: he probably could have been a bigger financial success had he not been a disaster of a human, but maybe his dirty life and times gave him enough material to feed his creativity...who knows.

WZ: I was real lucky, because I always had some kind of work that came along - at the last minute, anyway. I was always able to make some kind of living as a musician I also never really got rich, and that might have been lucky too, ya know?

Interviewer: in what way?

WZ: Well, because the less time you spend with the issues of being rich they're like the issues of being famous they're not real issues so they're not real life.

Interviewer: And it leaves more time to be creative?

WZ: There's more of an exchange - a human exchange of ideas and feelings to be had on the bus stop than over the phone with your accountant, and if you're rich you spend a lot of time on the phone with your accountant. it's necessary, I believe. I know I'm happy and that means I must be lucky. That I know.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I've not heard of Warren Zevon of maybe I have and not yet known it. However, that was a great recount of that interview and I'm happy to have read it.

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

I appreciate you taking the time to say that! Thank you. My favorite song by him is probably Desperados Under the Eaves, if you'd ever like to hear the best of his music.

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