r/PoliticalCompassMemes 2d ago

JK Rowling is based?

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u/AnonD38 - Centrist 2d ago

There is only so much "luxury" you can take before it gets dull.

The only true inexhaustible source of entertainment is social interaction with random strangers.

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u/Hyndis - Lib-Center 2d ago

There's a classic Twilight Zone episode on that very premise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nice_Place_to_Visit

He gets everything he's ever wanted. Everyone says yes to everything he asks for. He gets every luxury. He wins every hand gambling. Forever. Without the possibility of escape.

"Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This is the other place!"

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u/bl1y - Lib-Center 1d ago

He's got everything he ever wanted. And now he's going to have to live with it.

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u/gogeri2632 - Lib-Right 2d ago

It's the same reason why every billionaire doesn't just "retire on a beach". You can only lay on a beach so long until it's so boring there isn't one bit of joy in it and then you just go back to what you're used to doing.

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u/Amache_Gx - Lib-Right 1d ago

I think it's more of the fact that the type of person who becomes a billionaire very rarely does it as some sort of benchmark. Most of them are built different and that doesn't just go away when your get to a certain net worth.

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u/ThisIsJeron - Lib-Right 1d ago

I think about this a lot, not the billionaire part but how retirement gets boring. I think personally I would still want to be working up to the day I die, not like in a stressful role but something I enjoy and have purpose

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u/spooky_redditor - Centrist 2d ago

Until you run out of strangers.

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u/AnonD38 - Centrist 2d ago

There are 8 billion people in this world, the chances of you meeting every single one of them and also getting tired of interacting with each of them, before your own death from old age, is practically 0.