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posted by CoolHand on Monday August 31 2015, @01:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the money-can't-buy-love dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday August 31 2015, @02:38PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Monday August 31 2015, @02:38PM (#230179)

    So only a fool dreams of winning the lottery, a smart man would know better.

    Only a fool (by my standards) dreams of winning the lottery because the probability of actually winning the lottery is so small that you're just wasting your money.

    What you say is entirely subjective. Not everyone is like you. Not everyone wishes to waste money on useless trash. Not everyone shares your values. Therefore, you cannot say that because you would not be satisfied with winning the lottery, that no one else would.

    but until you are in that situation you cannot tell me you could shake the temptation of destroying yourself.

    Similarly, you can't tell someone else how they would act if such a thing were to occur.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @04:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @04:59PM (#230272)

    GP here, Fair point in deed. I was merely reflecting on fallibility of the human condition. You think you can handle shit till you can't. Likewise some may handle it much better than others, I only fear that that subset is much much smaller. A lot of people would parade their intellect out front, claiming they would never succumb to any of the ailments that plague other men. I too think of myself intelligent, but I would not make such a statement.