Staying in the Arena

Shrug. You say "inner drive for success beyond financial security", I say "deep-rooted psychological issues and pathological desire to be seen as better than everybody else".

Why would I thank Zeus for that? I’m supposed to be happy that being insanely rich and powerful isn’t enough for these people? They’re in the Arena of Capitalism fighting.

Of course that’s kinda the lie right? They can’t lose. It’s a fixed match. Elon was forced to massively overpay for Twitter because he’s incapable of shutting up for two weeks and ultimately it’s success or failure doesn’t matter at all to him. Zuck cannot be removed as CEO even though he should be for the massive VR failure.

So in some respects I agree with the author. It is an arena and for some people it’s life or death. For these people it’s a fun game. Absolute worst case, everything goes wrong, they can live a life of unspeakable luxury forever. I mess up and my life is destroyed.