• Rikudou_Sage
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    127 days ago

    and then sleep more peacefully than you have on the single best day of your entire life

    Seriously doubt that. Those kinds of people don’t sleep well.

    • @[email protected]
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      127 days ago

      It’s nice to think that there is some form of cosmic justice present, and that wealthy people have some sort of unique-to-their-situation guilt that balances out how easy their lives are. But that’s all it is. Nice to think about.

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        26 days ago

        I mean, you have to be a psychopath to amass this kind of wealth.

        And being a psychopath is (usually) a defense mechanism against a trauma severe enough that being a psychopath is necessary to not go mad.

        So no, psychopaths don’t feel good most of the time, they’re severely broken to the point that they’re not a fully developed personality (being a psychopath is officially called a personality disorder).

        Note that a personality disorder isn’t a yes/no checkbox, but more of a spectrum. For example, being slightly histrionic is very common among actors, but it doesn’t mean they’d murder you for fun.