Maybe I'm just romanticizing it, but I feel being great at something is better even if you are poor because that is what humans want in the end, being better than others. I mean, even a guy like Elon, the richest and one of the most powerful person, gets insecure and has to make himself look smarter at something to everyone.

>>14979314 (OP)

Posting here and not on /adv/ because I am not looking for advice, but I'm just curious to know the opinions of others, and you guys seem to know a lot about the human condition

>>14979314 (OP)

Elon is basically what would happen if the average 4channer got any sort of wealth or status. I don't disagree, but holy shit imagine expecting any of this from a 5000 year old Indian board game.

>>14979314 (OP)

Rich and powerful.

>>14979314 (OP)

if you think being poor is better than X (other than being horribly mutilated or something), you are obnoxiously 'middle-class'

>>14979314 (OP)

I would rather have a talent for a useful skill I could make breakthroughs into than being a richfag.It keeps you young and alive. Look at Kant and Musashi Miyamoto,both dedicated their life to their craft and lived without enjoying luxuries but just enough comfort so they can enjoy their craft. They lived a satisfactory life and died content not even having any children

Inb4 Miyamoto didn't exist.

But people who were obsessed with their craft, be it mathematicians, philosophers, or artists chose to live a modest life in pursuit of their work. In contrast, the rich and powerful always try to present themselves as geniuses to badly imitate this very pursuit in an artificial manner.

While I agree with you. No art,craft or science is free of hero worship and egomaniacs calling people stupid and having cat fights. Chess community is a good example of that.

You are right. But I'm talking about a person's need to appear wiser than everyone else, more than anything. Like in OP, Elon makes up bullshit to cope with not being really good at chess. But I doubt that Carlsen would cope like Elon, if asked if he's rich and powerful. The need to appear intelligent>>>>The need to appear rich and powerful, atleast on individual scale. So, I think what man wants to be better(smarter) than others than be richer and more powerful than others, or atleast appear to.

>>14979314 (OP)

it's better to be good at something. no question. there's no romanitcism about it.

>>14979314 (OP)

>t. 

Ecce homo, homo

Yeah. That does make sense.

>>14979314 (OP)

For most people, after someone starts making 200k / yr, money doesnt matter anymore. Compare this to someone who makes 10 million yr vs 100 million.

>consequence

The happiest most successful people in the world are professional sports players. They dont make elon musk money, but they are the 1%. They are the pinnacle of their craft and get to bang cheerleaders.

Chess isnt an art a craft or a science and its very easy to determine who the best is.

In others too you can know which are the greatest, not the best maybe, but you can definitely establish an hierarchy.

>>14979314 (OP)

Does Elon realise how pathetic he looks when he says this?

test.
