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This. The trivial answer to 'reintroducing struggle' isn't even discussed.

Sure, because that's not actually the problem.

What he was looking for was self-actualization. He thought he'd find that through building a company. He was wrong. That doesn't mean building a company js a bad thing! It's more like watering your plants when what they actually need is higher nitrate content.

It's easy to mock the rich for being at a bit of a loss on how to live life, but in their defense, they have fewer models to follow, and many of the most important lessons apply to private rather than public behavior.

There are lots of people out there who unironically believe that "if they only knew how to code" a lot of their problems would be solved. And perhaps they would---but new, unforeseen ones would arrive.

It's very nice to not have to worry about money. I think people tend to downplay the importance of removing this stress from your life. No, money doesn't solve everything, but for me the lack of it created an immense amount of stress.

With that much money you would be thinking about it more often. How to protect and grow and can be more stressful.

I can tell you it is much less stressful.

"Having money's not everything, not having it is"

I've heard this alternately stated: "It's better to be poor: you're just as unhappy as a rich person, but you still have hope that money will help."

“That’s one of the problems he seems to be grappling with: more money, generally, means less struggle, and if it’s struggle that made him, how does he find that going forward?”

Money only removes some struggles. As Steve Jobs found, even ridiculous money won't prevent you from struggling if you have terminal cancer.

Solution for Peter Rahal: get cancer.

Maybe then he'd plow his money into something useful like cancer research.

Of course, even better if he puts his money to a good cause without getting cancer.

By simply reinvesting his money into the economy via stocks and bonds he is contributing the making the world a better place.

Market economics has been lifting the world's humans out of poverty at an alarmingly fast rate since 2000. You'll never hear about this in the news of course.

>You'll never hear about this in the news of course.

Why I heard that very sentiment this morning on the news.

He didn't get a terminal cancer, I remember with all his money he went the looney way of treating cancer and then it was too late for a proper treatment. Money does gives you opportunity to get better healthcare that the mere mortals can only dream of.

Reintroducing struggle is directly discussed in the article.

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