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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, Interesting) by Marco2G on Monday August 31 2015, @02:46PM
If your friends don't have time for you because of their jobs, pay their salary.
I know, I know, you'll always wonder whether they're your true friends yadda, yadda... That's a billionaire's problem, live with it. However, when someone can't spend time with you because they need to work for income and you're a freaking billionaire, I think your problems become self-made.
What Notch is now experiencing, though, is that people start treating you differently. And no matter how much I like to think of myself as a superior being, I have to admit that I, too, would probably start being envious of a friend who has 1.3 billion dollars and I have to waste forty hours a week of my life to make other people money.
Just to put things into perspective, though: This man could pay himself ten millions a year, he could hire ten people as staff at a very generous 100k a year and have ten friends living with him or close by and give them a million a year and keep that going for 60 years.
So... what exactly is the unsolvable issue here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @03:16PM
He could even start doing some twinking or "power levelling" for amusement: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Twink [wikia.com]
Perhaps he could put up a suitable test, and then twink the one who passes with the highest scores.
I daresay lots of rich billionaires are doing similar stuff with their kids.
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Monday August 31 2015, @06:24PM
If your friends don't have time for you because of their jobs, pay their salary. I know, I know, you'll always wonder whether they're your true friends yadda, yadda...
No need to wonder - the true friends are the ones that won't take your money. Seriously, that's a recipe for disaster. After a couple of years, depending on their character, they'll either be (a) spoiled for life and unemployable (esp. if we're talking about tech industry types) or (b) busy running a successful company they started once someone was paying their mortgage. What if they get married and want to spend time with their families? What if you fall out - will you fire them? Put an ad on Craigslist for a replacement?
Sure, you'd help your friends out if they were in a hole... but pay them a salary to be your friend? Ick. Sounds to me like passing on the curse...
(Score: 1) by Marco2G on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:01AM
And so what? Unless they are true friends, you will grow apart anyway. So surround yourself with people as long as they are fun. When it stops being fun, you part ways. After being friends for a few years, nobody can reasonably have bad feelings against you because they are now pretty rich and if they haven't squandered all their money already, can conceivably stop working at all.
And if they should happen do be true friends, that will transcend the money issue all on its own.
Again, dude's a billionaire. He can't lose like this. Just takes a bit of balls and spine...