A Vice piece on the contrast of slums and a billion-dollar home in Mumbai [1] and a pair of 2008 billionaire suicides [2][3].
It makes me wonder if each of these guys and the profiled Alwaleed are just so far abstracted from typical human wants that prestige and status become sole obsessions?
Reading about guys like this or that billionaire whiner Perkins make me feel very blessed. I'm not really motivated by money but I do recognize it is a tool that allows for other things I am interested in. But then you get smacked in the face with someone like the people you're talking about and realize that your modest life is not too bad since you're not so out of touch with the reality of the world...
A Vice piece on the contrast of slums and a billion-dollar home in Mumbai [1] and a pair of 2008 billionaire suicides [2][3].
It makes me wonder if each of these guys and the profiled Alwaleed are just so far abstracted from typical human wants that prestige and status become sole obsessions?
1: http://youtu.be/8TMKyUdEEMo?t=17m43s 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/02madoff.html?_r=... 3: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/recession/4210246/Adolf-M...