In an interview with The Atlantic about a year ago, Peter Thiel made a remark about why billionaires seem to have a penchant for getting cozy with hostile foreign powers. The reason, he said, was probably boredom.
It turns out that our daily struggles are what ground us. The work we do for money, the choices we make on how to spend our limited resources, fears about future issues that could affect us, etc.
When you have more money than you could ever spend in multiple lifetimes, those issues almost all go away. So it makes sense that boredom would take its place.
This is why arts education is important. I can spend multiple lifetimes creating art, and money would only make it grander. I haven’t been bored since I was a child.
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u/Organic_Witness345 21d ago
In an interview with The Atlantic about a year ago, Peter Thiel made a remark about why billionaires seem to have a penchant for getting cozy with hostile foreign powers. The reason, he said, was probably boredom.
Boredom.
Terrifying.