[swyx]

i mean, your definition of living doesnt have to equal his. he's a retired centimillionaire, he's spending say 10-15 hours a week doing this stuff (ok the penis-measurement-during-sleep thing is weird af) and the rest of it is still his own time to do whatever he wants.

thats still more "living" than the rest of us working class. and perhaps no stranger a hobby than some of us have.

[twixfel]

It depends what he does. Maybe he's living a lot less than a lot of much poorer people. Maybe his obsession with death stops him living at all.

[tablespoon]

> he's a retired billionaire

Not even. He's a "middle-aged tech centimillionaire."

[throwaheyy]

I think they really meant hectomillionaire?

“Centi” means one hundredth. In other words he is worth in the order of $10,000.

[tablespoon]

I think centi can mean either a hundredth or a hundred. It was appropriated by the metric system to mean a hundredth, but that doesn't obliterate the other sense.

[blippitybleep]

No need to get defensive. Can I help viewing things through the lens that I do? Is it really such a problem for me to express my views?

[maksimur]

The comment you replied to doesn't look defensive to me. Many people view the world through their own perspective and don't understand that what they might feel like a drag or depressing is enjoyable (or not a big deal) for others. You should try to view things through other's perspective.

[blippitybleep]

Everyone views the world through their own lens. We are individuals. Why would I express someone else’s view?

Spending your life trying to outsmart the inevitability of death is a futile waste of a life. Money isn’t the issue, but it does afford one the ability to indulge delusions like immortality to a ludicrous degree.

[snapcaster]

The comment you're responding to didn't read to me as defensive, more just refuting your point. I think the idea that somehow he isn't really living is just a cope

[twixfel]

The idea that every single very, very rich person is necessarily "living" is cope as well, albeit in the other direction.

[snapcaster]

Stop coping. Nobody claimed every single very rich person is necessarily living. Someone who is healthy, fit, rich and is doing whatever he is into at the time and your first thought is "maybe he's not happy" lol cope

[blippitybleep]

I’ve no doubt many billionaires are happy, but thinking you can outsmart the grim reaper is a tad sad. It doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are, we all have to learn to accept the inevitably of death. I learned to cope with death a long time ago, we all have to at some point.

[twixfel]

You're coping. It wasn't "my first thought". I read the whole article and came away thinking "pretty sad and strange man". You can't take it with you, and his solution is apparently to try and escape death. It's sad. I don't find many very very rich people sad, but I do find this one to be.