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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 kurenai.tsubasa on Monday August 31 2015, @11:21PM
Notch, I have no idea if you even know this site exists or will ever see any of the advice posted above. You hit the jackpot of modern eCapitalism. You've got it made. You are now free to live your life however you want. Consider yourself retired.
The mansion causing you problems? Get rid of it.
The money causing you problems? Get rid of it.
Lots of good suggestions above. The Project Australia suggestion in particular caught my eye. Also see my earlier suggestion I see somebody else also made without naming them of volunteering for Engineers without Borders.
It's all temporary in the grand scheme of things. Don't let it screw you up. Recall that Prince Siddhartha only found enlightenment after rejecting both a lavish lifestyle and the ascetic lifestyle. Avoid worshiping mammon and find better philosophical guidance, even if you don't actually believe Siddhartha or Jesus ever existed.
You don't even need to personally Musk. (Is Musking an intransitive verb now?) Set up a foundation or endowment and follow in the footsteps of somebody like Carnegie. As somebody above suggested, get Bill Gates or Elon Musk on the horn. I'm sure they can point you in the right direction. Now that you've achieved the status of Master of the Universe, JG, you're in a perfect position to get away from the crack-snorting kind. Instead of staring at yourself in the mirror while your mates wage-slave away, make some phone calls. I'm sure you can find enough reputable people to manage the thing. All you need to do is check up on them every now and then and make sure they're dutifully Musking for you. (Don't forget such organizations are like magnets to embezzlers and money launderers, so I'm not saying you don't need to put forth some kind of effort, but point is you can pay people to deal with the crack-snorting MotU for you.)
Or heck, just cut Engineers without Borders a check for a cool billion or do a 50/50 split between them and Doctors without Borders, retire on the rest, and call it a day.
Here's another idea: partner with GT Academy [gran-turismo.com]. It's video games! It's putting people who could only dream of being a race car driver in the driver seat of a real race car! Create some more options for folks like me who can't stand Nissans! (Recommendation: Mitsubishi or Ford rally)
← This is the tl;dr point. I'm just babbling below this line and fantasizing out loud. (Disclaimer: the above may be that as well!)
If any of the games I've been involved in had ever rocketed me into the financial stratosphere, here's what kind of endowment I would set up (while setting just enough aside for myself, perhaps $30,000 per year, maybe less [to be fair, that's after buying a decent house, probably looking at new construction at around $200k, and a Lambo or somesuch], so that I'd never need to work again):
tl;dr There you have it! Maybe Project Australia is the better idea, but at any rate, if your cash is screwing you up, get rid of it!