• piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Lets be honest… if someone walks up to you and offers 2 fucking billion dollars for a block game you made on the whim… youd take the money.

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      2 days ago

      It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. …in 2014. …and they seemed to be mostly correct.

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      2 days ago

      Wasn’t he already rich, though? Once you’re over, like, $10mm, you don’t really need to work anymore.

      And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.

      If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I’d probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He’s a shithead failure of a human, if that’s all he’s done.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        As a millionaire i would definitely accept an offer to become a billionaire. When you already have enough for a carefree life, money becomes power instead and then you can exert your will on the world. I can definitely see how that is really tantalizing, especially nowadays where virtually everyone has an unspecified feeling of being powerless against the system.