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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: 5, Insightful) by ilPapa on Monday August 31 2015, @03:10PM
That's easy. A useful course of action is STOP THINKING ABOUT YOURSELF. Be decent to other people, find out what they're interested in, what they need and how you can help.
It doesn't matter that after the universe dies of entropy it will amount to nothing. It will amount to something now. And it will keep you from being miserable.
It all starts with not making yourself the center of your universe. And don't just write a check, but actually go do something for someone. I don't care if it's just walking over to a neighbor and say hello. Just make sure you listen to what they have to say.
There are a million things that you can do right now, today, to make yourself less lonely and less unhappy. Even if at first you have to pretend to care about other people, eventually you'll get the hang of it and you will actually care, unless you are a true sociopath, in which case I am unqualified to help you.
This really is not "just get on with it" advice, and I hope you understand that. It's a very specific prescription for happiness.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:19PM
This is foolishness... "do for others"... bah!
What he needs to do is do for himself.
He needs to leave egalitarian Sweden where people look at him with suspicion for being rich, and also not bother with the US where people only like him for his money and would otherwise consider him a 'fedora-wearing neck-beard'. And look for something new. He needs to search for happiness if he wants it and doesn't have it.