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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 q.kontinuum on Monday August 31 2015, @04:48PM
If success was strongly related to talent, his previous success should indicate enough talent to build up a new business again. Since he apparently was happy(er) with his previous life, the course of action would clearly be to start a new business from scratch.
The fact that he doesn't take this course of action indicates to me that he knows that his success was rather a lucky strike than based on his talent. This does not help for him to find an answer, but might help us to save some money by not buying all those crappy books on how to successfully start a business -- it's good luck, you have it or you don't.
@Notch: If you don't need your money, why don't you try to spend it on a good cause? Keep enough to have a secure life (Buy a house, invest enough money to be able to live on the interest; maybe invest is in a way that prevents you from touching the substance, allowing you only access to the interest), build some schools in some third world countries or invest in some lobbying for things you believe in. Monitor the progress, take some active interest, and let the word our that you spent your money on it. Once you are not rich anymore, there will be enough women who appreciate a kind-hearted man even if he's not a billionaire, and since you don't have legal access to the substance of your fortune anymore, no-one can play foul to get it from you either. A lawyer will probably be able to help you with the details...
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 31 2015, @06:11PM
There are plenty of paths for Notch. Take his money, donate some of it, invest some of it for easy capital gains (or let a foundation/manager do this), invest in higher risk ventures closer to his heart, like indie game studios, and either get back to making games or find some place that will employ a billionaire gaming celebrity. Shouldn't be too difficult.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @08:54PM
He should make http://www.lgdb.org/game/chaosesque-anthology [lgdb.org] better!