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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @02:16PM
Back around 1999, when AOL was blazing hot, there was an article [washingtonpost.com] in the Washington Post about the 20-somethings who cashed in their stock options and retired as millionaires. The story was about a slacker millionaire who was bored and didn't know what to do with himself.
Boo fucking hoo. Are we supposed to feel sorry for these guys? Who feels sorry for these guys? They complain of sycophants and false friends and shallow people, but then this guy throw lavish parties that are filled with sycophants, false friends, and shallow people? Fuck you. If you want real friends, stop being a douche. Look at someone like Warren Buffet. One of the richest guys in the world, but you can run into him, have conversations with him, sit next to him in the cafeteria and you wouldn't know he was stoopid rich.
Good for this guy for selling out and making a bajillion dollars. Only those who have been put in that position to be offered and to turn down a bajillion dollars has a leg to stand on to criticize him. Everyone else can STFU as far as I'm concerned. However, go head and pay $70M for your walled compound and throw your tens of thousands of dollar parties, but don't be such an ass to cry for my pity.
And yeah, I always hated Richie Rich comics as a kid. You gotta problem with that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @04:48PM
The object lesson here is also rule of capitalism #1, people should never have more money than brains. Don't worry, the invisible hand of the market corrects any things that tread upon this rule. Warren Buffet is a man who personifies this. He is exactly smart enough for the wealth that he has.
Of course there is the rule of capitalism #2, people should never have less many than their greed demands. But he doesn't seem like a greedy fellow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @02:02AM
Wow, someone has a massive load of unresolved anger issues. And obviously lacking any kind of outlet so you have to hate on people you have never met.
You are mad at Richie Rich too? He's a fictional character.
Seriously, your flame had no discernible focus. You had better get some help before you hurt someone, possibly yourself.
(you would get modded -1 Troll if I had an account)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:45AM
Yes, Ritchie Rich. Don't you remember him? Probably not; you're probably too young to have developed any sense of responsibility, empathy, and self esteem. The tag line on his comics were Poor Little Rich Boy. That's what we got here. Oh, poor little rich boy!
I don't have any anger issues, except maybe towards pretentious dickwads like you. Like I said, good on him for selling out and I am the last to criticize or think ill of him for it (are you one of the dumbfucks who thinks ill of him for not turning down a billion dollars because "selling out to the Man" would ruin YOUR game?). However, I don't have to listen to him whine about how awful it is to be a billionaire. There's a Joe Walsh song that sums it up pretty good: Everybody's so different, I haven't changed. He could fuck movie stars for the rest of his life, or pull a Kurt Cobain, and it would make zero difference to me or my life, but forgive me for calling him out for being a whining little shit because he apparently has some need for attention and to receive confirmation that he's just a lonely regular guy.
I dunno, maybe you go walking through the homeless shelter complaining about how awful it is that because you have so much food, too much of it spoils in the fridge before you can eat it. Yes, clearly those homeless guys have unresolved anger issues towards you. It can't be that YOU are a unempathetic and ignorant jackass.
(I'd mod you -1 Dumbfuck, but you're not worth the effort of logging in)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:53AM
Case in point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @02:31PM
What case in point? You make no point. I think this anger you perceive has been explained pretty well. If English is not your native son, then forgive me, but otherwise it is not on me if you are too dense to understand coherent sentences.