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This was at the end of the article Forbes presented me with:
I don't want to make it to the C-suite. That sounds awful. I want to help specific people solve problems they have helping other people.
Do other people think like this? Like they want a corner office and a big car? Am I that fucking abnormal that this sounds like a death sentence to me?
Actually a lot of "normal" people do want that.
And many even not very "normal" people may easily lose their mind thinking they have the opportunity to become powerful.
Maybe I’m more spider than man but with great power comes great responsibility and I recognize I’m not mature enough for that.
Yes, but you are not in a situation where you can have that great power and can't be certain until then.
I’ve had a small amount of power and the responsibilities were enough that I never want any power again.
People who read Forbes do.
I think large parts of humanity still desires enormous amount of money and are willing to spend their lives focusing on it.
It's because money gives what people actually want - safety, respect, admiration, power, freedom etc.
"suprising obstacles" lol as soon as it gets hard these fuckers just fuck off to a new ceo position at a different company.
And the only thing hard about being ceo is making decisions that suck for your own employees like cutting back homeoffice or fire/rehire and not have a bad conscience. But since these fuckers dont have any moral or loyalality anyways it isnt hard for them at all.
Lemmy tends to have skewed perception of such things. Truth is, most people want money. As much as possible in as short time as possible. There's a multitude of reasons, from wanting a luxurious life, to simply wanting to not have to worry about the money or to retire early, but pretty much everyone wants money. Look at how many folk join the lottery.
Hell, most of Lemmy wants student debt to be forgotten. That's gaining money, just in reverse order. Same with distributed wealth etc.
World spins around money, no matter how you look at it.
But sure as hell I wouldn't like to be in a place I hate to earn it. :/
It's not unreasonable to aspire to not having money worries, the stess of it is literally a medical issue eg not having to worry about meeting mortgae or rent payments, a mechanical breakdown on a car, or paying for a dental emergency, a broken limb, or buying a new pair of shoes, replacing your laptop etc.
Much past that is based on envy and that's where it becomes toxic with wealth inequality. It's human nature to feel envy, you can fight it but its inate in all humans, the ONLY solution is to recognise that and to remove it by removal of inequality. The inevitable end result of not doing that is the guillotine, social instability, or in this case a bullet.
However... :) theres a whole other issue of the people in the first paragraph, who see themselves as the "everyday volk", being incredibly unequal to the other 90% of the world. So there's an irony there that they need to use force to preserve thier own status quo, much like the C-suite rely on force to protect their status quo (police, army etc) . You see this play out in anti immigrant and refugee hostility, build a wall etc
Of those people who want more money to afford a comfortable life, it is much more rare to be mentally ill enough to want to be a billionaire and that is what is being discussed here really.
And on the topic of wanting more money to afford a comfortable life, that mostly exists also because achieving this comfortable and fear free life is made more harder by these billionaires who view services which should be basic social rights as sectors that they can squeeze money out of.
Wanting to be billionaire is not to be mentally ill. Who doesn't like power without responsibility? Whatever moral framework you've got, most folk wouldn't subscribe to when given option to be billionaire. Sorry, but that's reality - power makes people drunk, and it's only natural for us to want power - power to make our families and friends live better, to make people we despise grovel, to have all we want. It takes discipline and ideals to veer off into helping everyone.
And I agree with the lofe being made harder being the reason, but it doesn't really apply to original comment I replied to.
Oh I am %100 sure at least half the world will take the option to be a billionaire. But that to me just means that the Earth is in a mental health crisis.
Yes and then like some people do (and some people don't) they get addicted to that substance which makes them drunk and addiction is a mental health problem and quite usually with some other underlying causes.
sociopaths and children is who. have you ever been in charge of something important? something that actually matters to a number of people? if it turns into a power trip you need to grow the fuck up. it should be a humbling experience, that many people are relying on you take care of them in one way or another.
and to make people you don't like 'grovel' is just maintaining a cycle of violence.
I do agree with you. I simply point out that a lot of folk don't care.
I don’t want that. I want enough to live my life and nothing extravagant.
They’re calvinists believing: the greater the wealth, the greater the morality. Taking it to its extremes is the point as is the cruel structural violence.
Do you have what it takes which is also known as inherited wealth
Every time I get a promotion I've had more and more distance between me and doing the actual work I get paid a lot more but I hate it. I have very little job satisfaction because the time scale of the things I'm working on has gone from days to months. Most of the time I just feel like I'm getting nothing done and it's incredibly frustrating.
You guys are getting promotions?
Only because I fell into a role that was perfectly suited for my personality so it was easy for me to excel at it. Then my name got around and people started to assume because I was so good at that I must be good at other things too. Which has been pretty hit or miss...
I want that.