I don’t get how they’re so bitter and hateful. Happiness is some chemicals in the brain and money can definitely buy all of those.
They have the money and leverage to get whatever medications they want and hire a team of doctors to monitor them and keep them safe while abusing them to be the happiest people ever.
And they’re buying a 12th yacht and another castle instead? Lame.
I think what we call happiness is comprised of more than what drugs can stimulate.
Life satisfaction, purpose, reciprocated love and connection, etc. - these are all things that are more cerebral than what even the best chemical cocktail can offer.
It’s a nice sentiment, but in the end those things all boil down to chemicals in the brain.
I’m not saying that administering a constantly rotating chemical buffet is the ideal way to experience life or happiness. But if you have hundreds of billions of dollars it certainly seems like it would be a better alternative than being a miserable prick.
If you’re rich enough to have your own pharmacists and neuroscience research division along with doctors to monitor your health? Very definitely. You could set up a crop rotation of chemicals to keep you all sorts of happy without worries of major addiction to or mounting tolerance of any individual chemical, all while more are devised and tested.
It’d be some mighty blissy bliss. Tough to find much to complain about livin like that.
I don’t get how they’re so bitter and hateful. Happiness is some chemicals in the brain and money can definitely buy all of those.
They have the money and leverage to get whatever medications they want and hire a team of doctors to monitor them and keep them safe while abusing them to be the happiest people ever.
And they’re buying a 12th yacht and another castle instead? Lame.
I think what we call happiness is comprised of more than what drugs can stimulate.
Life satisfaction, purpose, reciprocated love and connection, etc. - these are all things that are more cerebral than what even the best chemical cocktail can offer.
It’s a nice sentiment, but in the end those things all boil down to chemicals in the brain.
I’m not saying that administering a constantly rotating chemical buffet is the ideal way to experience life or happiness. But if you have hundreds of billions of dollars it certainly seems like it would be a better alternative than being a miserable prick.
Eh, that’s a maybe, if you’re rich. Not saying medication can’t be useful, but the sane reaction to an insane world is also hard to deny.
If you’re rich enough to have your own pharmacists and neuroscience research division along with doctors to monitor your health? Very definitely. You could set up a crop rotation of chemicals to keep you all sorts of happy without worries of major addiction to or mounting tolerance of any individual chemical, all while more are devised and tested.
It’d be some mighty blissy bliss. Tough to find much to complain about livin like that.