Let's assume you're Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, or just a CEO or boss, or majority shareholder of a large company.

Let's suppose you have it all, big houses, multiple vacation homes, big family, nice cars, big fat stock options and dizzying amount of digits in the bank.

Nice, so what now? What motivates you? What is there to earn? Why work hard?

See if you can turn it into more.

Finance a pet project you always wanted to see realized.

Give half away and see how long it takes to earn it back.

Buy up commodities and sell them when prices rise to help even out volatility.

Buy up commodities and back a new currency with it to overthrow fiat money.

cuz people more "connected" than you got you by the balls and everyone hates you

the real rich aren't famous. you don't want the peasants to know you exist. shell companies, philanthropy. these guys are just taking notes from generational drug empires

you also gotta keep bribing those politicians so nobody starts thinking "eat the rich" will be possible

it's not about thriving. you just upgrade to a different game

fund militant, terrorist orgs in countries to arm-twist their governments for fun

If masses' lives and fates were in my hands based on my whims, id be motivated to keep it that way until I die

@azuredivay

> If masses' lives and fates were in my hands based on my whims,

I'd build concentration camps for Jews, and Chinese

They're good at putting teams together and running businesses, and people enjoy doing things they're good at.

There is probably also an element of "my willy is bigger than your willy", like there is in everything else.

Elon's nonstop buzzing keeps Tesla's stock bubble afloat. The minute he calls it quits, it bursts, and that would piss off a LOT of people more powerful than Elon. Among billionaires, Elon is the lowest tier.

Higher tier billionaires though, the ones so powerful that you don't even know their names? They're psychopaths that enjoy playing around with social groups and sometimes entire countries. Oh, and ten-year-old boys. Those are people that start wars. You can't become a high-tier billionaire and not be a psychopath. All rising non-psychopaths quietly retire before they reach that point.

If you want to predict whether some event will happen in the near future or not, ask yourself how powerful is the old rich pedophile on top that will get mad if it happens. This is why If a zero-day is discovered in something like Postgres, some of the smartest programmers to have ever lived will get to fixing it within minutes.

Make, why don't these people fucking solve world hunger, political corruption.. raise up 3rd world nations, religious wars, etc.. etc.

@donkulator why not for jihadis? They are the real problems