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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @02:32PM
The problem is that we're mortal beings living on a planet that won't last forever in a universe that is dying of entrophy
If that's true that's not a problem at all, that would be great. It would only be a problem if you are an immortal being trapped in a dying universe. If you thought being mortal in this universe was a problem, then you're actually the one who is short sighted and lacks understanding. So if you're mortal, be thankful. If you're immortal, good luck, you better go figure stuff out before it's too late.
So for the mortals how important are those deeper questions of life really? Billions and billions of animals have just got on with it. If they didn't they wouldn't have been evolutionarily fit.
Most of those deep questions are good masturbation just like most other stuff we're doing. Enjoy them if you wish but they really are not that important (at least to mere mortals).
To me the real issue is not the questions etc, the real issue seems to be he's not finding joy in stuff anymore. The eat, drink, be merry with friends stuff is not working for him. Maybe it's a sign of the beginnings of depression. Or that incident with the girl was a big downer for him (and if it's just the usual, then he'll recover normally after some time, he just has to keep going on till he recovers).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Monday August 31 2015, @03:38PM
Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. I liked how he handled the situation :)
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