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Well, and karma apparently works, as notch's life after becoming billionaire doesn't seem to be too positive

What happened to him? The story mentions vegas but is otherwise vague

He got incredibly lonely, lost all his friend, and got ostracized over posting some alt right and Q shit on twitter.

In other words, he finally grew up and, instead of dealing it in his 20s, is dealing with it in his 30s. He'll come around.

What a strange thing to say.

Most of us don't lose all our friends, or go in the deep end alt-right in our 20's...

My point is that he's in a shared melodramatic phase. It seems bad now, no doubt. But time heals all wounds. He'll find his friends again. He'll realize that Twitter isn't the right forum for posting batshit crazy stuff if you're sensitive to criticism. He'll repair things. He'll find his peace. Or he'll go insane. I'm hoping the former as a fellow human.

Well, he also has all the money in the world to be distracted and surrounded by people who are in for the wrong reasons. So, let's see.

Most of us don't become overnight billionaires.

He was almost 40 when he sold Minecraft.

35 isn't really almost 40. plus he hasn't been the lead designer since he was 32.

That's the story of the people who are mad at him on Twitter. It's not what he says, he says he's happy and has kept saying things like how getting out of Mojang was the best thing he did.

It seems to me he's reasonably happy, especially considering his circumstances were far from happy before Minecraft - his parents were ex-addicts, he had himself dropped out of school, his father had a mood disorder and relapsed into drug use and killed himself just weeks after the first big Minecon.

I thought he went deep in with the far left crazies. Must have happened after that.

What negatives were there? From what I know he bought a mansion and became a twitter shitposter.

And that's the pinnacle of what anyone would want out of life?

> And that's the pinnacle of what anyone would want out of life?

No one claimed that it was. Buying a mansion and shitposting on twitter isn't exactly the sign of being a failure, is it?

By all measureable metrics, I'd assume that his life is better than 90% of people that started life in the same socioeconomic class that he did.

Money doesn't buy happiness. Having Tony Hawk and Skrillex at your housewarming party is cool but they're not the same as friends.

> Money doesn't buy happiness.

I didn't say it does, but the clear fact of the matter is that there is literally no evidence that being rich leads to being miserable.

People saying "money doesn't buy happiness" don't realise that money doesn't bring unhappiness either. You can't use that statement for asserting that some rich person must be unhappy.

Sounds far better than being popular among Twitter journos, to be honest.

I don't see any wrongdoing from Notch in this.

That's not what he said, and no, Notch didn't do anything wrong here. He's referring to everything about current day Notch(sad, alone, transphobe in billion $ mansion that panders to the right on Twitter all day and hasn't had anything creatively interesting to say since 2015).

Where does that narrative that he is sad and alone come from?

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