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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: 2) by RedBear on Monday August 31 2015, @02:28PM
There is a simple solution to this problem. Offhand I don't know of anyone in modern times who has had the moral fortitude to attempt the solution by choice. There is a story of a Buddhist and his daughter in ancient times who either achieved enlightenment or, seeking enlightenment, placed all their worldly possessions in a boat and burned it, then took their rice begging bowls on the road and lived happily ever after.
Not happy having lots of money? Give it all away. You can do a lot of good things with $1.33 billion.
It does get difficult to find a decent life partner when one is ridiculously rich. I can totally sympathize with that. But it's one of those things where the right one tends to show up the minute you stop looking so hard. Especially if you're traveling around using your huge pile of money to do good deeds. Eventually you'll run into someone fantastic.
Any normal person can live very comfortably for their entire lives from just the interest payments from $10-30 million dollars or so. There's really no good reason to be afraid to spend the rest as quickly as possible, and come back down from billionaire zone to upper-middle-class zone. Problem solved.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @02:49PM
Any normal person can live very comfortably for their entire lives from just the interest payments from $10-30 million dollars or so.
I live comfortably on around $25,000 a year, having retired very early by most standards. It's about not wasting your money and living within your means. This doesn't mean not having fun.