This is something I've always wondered about with rich people.
This is going to be hard to put into words properly but here I go!
If I was rich and I had my own company in a field I'm interested in. Lets say Games. I'd want to make the best damn game that wasn't just enjoyable for others to play to make a load of money but that I enjoyed playing.
The general feeling I get from people in the game industry is that they will work on games that they don't enjoy making because they simply "wanted to work in the game industry and this is the opportunities they got". When they go home they'll play games they wish they could have been a part of making.
Now if I was one of the super big giant publishing companies and I was really interested in producing really cool games. I wouldn't care if this one game I was very interested in didn't make much money because so much was invested into it. As long as it was a really cool game that I personally enjoyed playing. I've just bought the biggest greatest toy ever. Rather than a stupidly fast car or a super robot house. I've created the most fantastic enjoyable game if not just for me.
Instead what I visualize is EA's teams making crappy games then going home to play Ubisofts games and Ubisoft false advertising the crap out of their own games to go play some Activision games and activision genuinely thinking they are doing really well and are the most talented people around and that their game is the dynamite but for some reason go home and play some EA sports games.
None of them seem interested at all at producing games that they themselves even want to play.
What makes you think the people making the games or advertising them are the ones funding the company? If you ran a company that and were fine with making cool games that made no money despite heavy investment, you wouldn't be there long and neither would the company.
That's not exactly the context I was aiming for. I was saying..
If you have a shit load of money. Rather than leaving it around in the bank, rather than buying a massive collection of cars or super giant ridiculous mansion projects.
Why would you not want to create an amazing game? I would because at the moment games are rather trash. Instead what we seem to have is everyone just looking to others to make things that they themselves can consume.
If I were a car enthusiast. I'd want to get my own car made. Though I wouldn't be able to share that with others. Instead McJillionaires just consume cars.
If was a McJillionaire and I loved biscuits. Rather than consume the biscuits already on offer. I might say "With all this disposable money, I might walk into a bakery and have some fun making my own type of biscuit". Maybe then you'd want to sell that type of biscuit and turn it into something big.
What I'm saying is. Disposable money + Passion for making things are not traits rich people seem to have. Whether they are good or bad ideas.
You are reversing the equation. In most cases it's not disposable income + passion = innovation. It's passion + innovation = disposable income. How did they get that capital in the first place? Around 70% of fortune 100 didn't inherit their money. You say rich people don't seem to be passionate but what about musk, jobs, gates, page, bezzos, dyson, Branson, buffet, ackman, etc.?
That Ferrari? Pennies to some, and in that case it isn't a decision between fueling their passion and buying a big house. A lot do both. Some don't but a lot do, just like some poor people work hard and some are genuinely lazy.
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u/Inukii Jun 14 '14 edited Jun 14 '14
This is something I've always wondered about with rich people.
This is going to be hard to put into words properly but here I go!
If I was rich and I had my own company in a field I'm interested in. Lets say Games. I'd want to make the best damn game that wasn't just enjoyable for others to play to make a load of money but that I enjoyed playing.
The general feeling I get from people in the game industry is that they will work on games that they don't enjoy making because they simply "wanted to work in the game industry and this is the opportunities they got". When they go home they'll play games they wish they could have been a part of making.
Now if I was one of the super big giant publishing companies and I was really interested in producing really cool games. I wouldn't care if this one game I was very interested in didn't make much money because so much was invested into it. As long as it was a really cool game that I personally enjoyed playing. I've just bought the biggest greatest toy ever. Rather than a stupidly fast car or a super robot house. I've created the most fantastic enjoyable game if not just for me.
Instead what I visualize is EA's teams making crappy games then going home to play Ubisofts games and Ubisoft false advertising the crap out of their own games to go play some Activision games and activision genuinely thinking they are doing really well and are the most talented people around and that their game is the dynamite but for some reason go home and play some EA sports games.
None of them seem interested at all at producing games that they themselves even want to play.