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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With enough money, you can buy all the rest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Literally almost everyone who has money naturally has a high P value

Trust fund babies talking about how hard they've worked is a meme for a reason

I bet there's some interesting analysis that could prove that p can be partially defined by m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I knew this would come up, and you are absolutely right. But apart of the bourgeoisie who really have some parts of their brains wired differently, us “normal” people even if we are successful we suffer from imposter syndrome or burn out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

enough

I think you underestimate the extremes we could go to with the directive to keep adding money until it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

P is the actual happiness. That she didn't quantify

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dunno. With enough money, "yes men" can be employed to tell me how much I deserve to be the boss, and books I'm uncomfortable with can be removed from my local library. /s

Edit: But I would never do that. Simple delusions of grandeur are easier to achieve and have fewer network externalities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

drugs. probably x will do it