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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 bradley13 on Monday August 31 2015, @03:11PM
So it's true: money can't buy happiness.
For most people, happiness comes from feeling needed. From feeling like you are some actual use to other people. Endless partying on Ibiza will just rot his liver and his brain, until he jumps off a bridge somewhere.
Notch has just ended one phase of his life. Now he needs to start the next: find a purpose, find something that interests him that would be of value to others. That could be another game, but probably not - if we're honest, Minecraft was a fluke, a lottery win. He could open a school. He could invest in startups. He could sponsor open source projects. He could...I don't know the guy, but there are a million things he could do.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @03:37PM
It may be true that money can't buy happiness, but it can buy something so close that you can't really tell the difference.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday August 31 2015, @04:28PM