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Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all
(www.theguardian.com)
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I've heard things like this are the reason why Charlie Sheen went off the deep end. Highest paid television actor in history at the time and it wasn't enough. Had to do crazy drugs, had to have wild promiscuous sex, had to do anything to feel alive.
I look back on the times when I was poor and I felt more actively engaged in life than now when I am not rich but not poor.
It almost makes me want to sell everything I have and throw it all away and go start over somewhere else just to see what life is like again.
It’s the struggle to rebuild, it gives you meaning and motivation to continue
I just want to play Minecraft for the first time again too.
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