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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 bzipitidoo on Monday August 31 2015, @08:07PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday August 31 2015, @08:07PM (#230418) Journal

    I expect nihilism, ennui, and boredom will eventually be a big issue for all of humanity-- if we survive the huge challenges, many self-made, that we're currently facing. Right now, thanks to those challenges, it's pretty exciting to be alive. What are these challenges? Perhaps Greed is the root problem. Seems everyone wants more, more, and we seem unable to exercise much restraint. Lot of people seem perfectly willing to damn the environment, full speed ahead with suburban sprawl, power guzzling conveniences, and making more babies. Keeping up with the Joneses, coveting thy neighbor's goods is a favorite game. The Earth can look after itself, and only pansies and wimps worry otherwise.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 31 2015, @10:02PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 31 2015, @10:02PM (#230479) Journal

    Perhaps Greed is the root problem.

    I think it's ignorance.

    Lot of people seem perfectly willing to damn the environment, full speed ahead with suburban sprawl, power guzzling conveniences, and making more babies.

    You ought to pay attention to who is making more babies. It isn't the people with the power guzzling conveniences or the suburban sprawl.

    • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:13AM

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:13AM (#230733) Journal

      Making more babies seems to correlate with patriarchal society, in both rich and poor nations. The Duggars are an example of this. Others are the Quiverfull movement, and the Mormons and Islamic groups who practice polygamy. Afghanistan and Rwanda show where that thinking leads. Can there be too many children? Of course! What happens then? Life becomes cheap. In Afghanistan, women average 8 children each. Half the children don't make it to adulthood, dying of malnutrition, disease, or accidents, or caught in the crossfire of wars. That still leaves too many, and the young adults then face the problem of there being no place for them. Not enough land, not enough jobs. They have only a choice of evils: fight, or starve. The fighting never ends. It continues until the population has been beat back down to a sustainable level, which can be never so long as attitudes do not change. Many Afghans accept that's just the way life is, don't see that it doesn't have to be that way.