[khamidou]

> The privileged few among us (I am not one of them) don't struggle with avoiding these addictions.

Counterpoint, the richest man in the world is clearly addicted to being on twitter and posts at all hours of the day. More generally I don't see why the richest wouldn't be addicted to social media like the rest of us – after all they have a lot more free time and disposable income

[everdrive]

Agreed, and I think Musk is an outlier. I think a bigger counterpoint for me would be "to what degree does wealth intersect with impulse control." I'd be shocked if there wee not a strong association, but it's also not going to be strictly linear. The might be diminishing returns at the poles, as well. The very low ends of impulse control look like "this guy blew grass clippings at my car so I shot him."

[lkey]

An outlier?

Nadella lives in an AI generated cocoon of psuedo-information, if his words are to be believed. Zuckerberg thinks he's Caesar and has become Dominican, post metaverse, for some reason. Bezos has become a Miami club promotor with phallic rockets. Thiel rants about the coming Anti Christ in seminars and keeps trying to create 'libertarian' cities (that he would own). Altman talks about the coming age of the Dyson sphere. The immortal vampire guy goes to sleep at 4pm or something insane.

The highest echelon of wealth allows you to follow every possible impulse in a 'disciplined' way at any given moment.

"this guy blew grass clippings at my car so I " purchased every home around me for a mile and constructed a private compound free from the interference of lesser mortals, then bankrupted the guy that dented my car?

[everdrive]

>Zuckerberg thinks he's Caesar and has become Dominican, post metaverse, for some reason. Bezos has become a Miami club promotor with phallic rockets. Thiel rants about the coming Anti Christ in seminars and keeps trying to create 'libertarian' cities (that he would own). Altman talks about the coming age of the Dyson sphere.

Well yes they're all nuts, but do any of these quirks suggest poor impulse control?

[stronglikedan]

> the richest man in the world is clearly addicted to being on twitter and posts at all hours of the day.

I think that's more likely related to how little they actually sleep, and trying to fill their waking hours, more than it is related to an addiction. It seems to be a pattern with these people that only need 4-5 hours a day of sleep.

[johnnyanmac]

addiction isn't necessarily a class issue, but of course someone of Musk's stature has many more options than to be dragged back to fighting with twitter users online. Including professional help if it is a serious addiction.

[mvdtnz]

He's also getting noticeably fatter.

[reaperducer]

A single data point doesn't change the bell curve.

The richest people in SV send their children to schools that are deliberately devoid of, or carefully restrictive of, technology. This is do they can learn to think, not follow.

[khamidou]

Just because they send them to a school without cell phones doesn't mean they're not hopelessly addicted to them

[wredcoll]

[citation needed]

As far as I can tell, rich kids are just as addicted to phones/etc as anyone else.

[reaperducer]

[citation needed]

Six seconds of DuckDuckGo:

https://parkervillesteiner.wa.edu.au/2022/08/08/hello-world/

https://archive.ph/mzxtZ

[ta12653421]

n=1 --> the exception of the rule :-D