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banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
Spooky23 · a year ago
The wife is paid off and fine. The problem is the troublesome girlfriends.

When there’s lots of money and ego at stake, people live their lives differently. Divorce brings acrimony and risk. The guy wants to be a playboy to fulfill whatever need he has, and seems to fritter around and make unwise choices. The spouse gets the prestige and status of being attached to the VIP, and may have her own dalliances.

High level operating people with money or power can afford to live seemingly bizarre lives. They’re just people with the same issues as everybody else, but the cash or influence allows them to make different choices, and for men think with their dick when they aren’t doing business - it’s pretty common.

banish-m4 · a year ago
Most people voluntarily imprison themselves in conventional, middle-class values because they have been brainwashed.
banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
voisin · a year ago
> The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires…

I think this is where your logic breaks down. Many billionaires exist due to no more intelligence and ambition than the average person but to have the luck of being born in the right place and time. Many billionaires (Buffett and Gates to name two off the top of my head) have admitted that luck was the primary reason they are multi-billionaires rather than millionaires or lower.

banish-m4 · a year ago
Your "logic" is bullshit because luck doesn't exist. Capitalizing on timing, risk tolerance, excellent anticipatory judgment, self-control, and rich parents also help.
banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
stanfordkid · a year ago
The thing is… having billions doesn’t actually make you that cool or desirable to women. Maybe it’s nice on paper — like having a cool car, but it’s a condiment. I think a lot of these tech billionaires want what they didn’t have when young and suddenly the facade of it appears in the form of gold diggers… they fall for these traps where they are weak. Eric Schmidt is not a so called “baller” like Leo DiCaprio or Christiano Ronaldo — most average women don’t actually want to sleep with him.
banish-m4 · a year ago
Are you going to lecture me about women, online Mr. Pickup artist?

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banish-m4 commented on Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement    · Posted by u/alexliu518
banish-m4 · a year ago
Yep. I was a freelance technical consultant for 10 years. Stanford University School of Medicine wouldn't pay my invoices. All you can do is keep asking politely for weeks or months. If they don't, then you might name and shame because there might not be anything else you can do except sue.
banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
gumby · a year ago
Splitting your assets in half, especially when you’re really rich, is hardly “economic suicide”
banish-m4 · a year ago
Okay, chief, you know it all. Liquidating assets causes significant losses.
banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
toomuchtodo · a year ago
Ego and hubris are not dissuaded by consequences.
banish-m4 · a year ago
That's what doesn't compute. The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires a certain pathological, insouciant public face or internal armor. Sure sexual thrills and "love" makes most people dumber, but a big boy billionaire baller ought to have a certain de rigeuer self-control to not catch the wrong sort of complications or perhaps they should've had a discreet open relationship arrangement a priori.
banish-m4 commented on Oystercatchers are waging war on NYC's beach drones   apnews.com/article/new-yo... · Posted by u/mikece
jimnotgym · a year ago
Could one train birds to be an anti drone defence, perhaps?
banish-m4 · a year ago
Birds of prey would probably be better at it and more trainable. I've see way more videos of hawks taking out drones than shore birds.
banish-m4 commented on Oystercatchers are waging war on NYC's beach drones   apnews.com/article/new-yo... · Posted by u/mikece
kwhitefoot · a year ago
I hope the birds win.
banish-m4 · a year ago
While tech advances are cool, I secretly do too. Like Mother Nature's vengeance and reminder that technology isn't invulnerable. Now if critters could just disable Russian tanks, the circle would be complete.
banish-m4 commented on The End of the Affair? Not for Eric Schmidt   nytimes.com/2024/07/12/te... · Posted by u/wyclif
banish-m4 · a year ago
I don't understand marital instability when you're rich and live in a community property state. Either stay married because there's way too much to lose or stay single, but to philander and divorce is just economic suicide.

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