There's some things that money can't buy

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the closest we get to a hero in the currently operative adventurers are niteowl ii and silk spectre, both of whom are aware they operate in the moral gray area of relativism and are constantly haunted by the question of whether or not what they do is right. as if to drive home that no, no it is not, they can’t engage sexually until they engage in violence. they try to justify their actions as being the best thing they can do in the moment given the constraints of the scenarios they find themselves in, but ultimately their actions are selfish and self serving. in many ways, this is why the comedian laughs. this contradictory form of nihilism is the joke all the adventurers must grapple with. they each respond differently. silk spectre chooses not to analyze or engage with the joke, preferring not to get it. niteowl ii and rorschach are different versions of understanding the joke, and choosing to carry on as if it wasn’t even the truth of their reality, choosing instead to lean into the philosophies they represent: relativism and objectivism, respectively. in walter kovacs telling mr manhatten to kill him, we see the failure of objectivism: objectivism leaves no room for making the best of a bad situation, de-emphasizing harm reduction and harm prevention in the name of righteousness. in niteowl ii’s inaction, we see the failure of moral relativism. niteowl ii is driven to inaction by his inability to take any real kind of a moral stance.

watchmen is such a misunderstood comic…

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Imagine having so much money you can buy love and happiness, but are so stupid you fail at both.

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You probably have to be one nasty motherfucker to continue after you have 1.000 Million dollars.

More is just even more mentaly ill people IMO

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Yes absolutely, even Owlman is compromised and flawed. It’s such a great comic.

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You have to love getting money more than any other thing.

Or, at least you have to love the things you need to do to get money. What given the things those people do, is even worse.

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Eh, I think a million maybe 2 is still in the limits of life savings for a normal person to warrant comfy retirement

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Everybody’s laughing at him but he’s the saddest clown of the circus

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Let’s be generous and let people dream and make it a cap at around ten millions.

More is just bad for everyone.

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I think the parent commenter uses the decimal separator and means a billion dollars.

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It’d be a real hoot if Owl Boy stepped on me tho

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Ah yeah you’re probably right

go $fsck yourself

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The thing is you can really only buy sycophants and pleasure, and the thing is that those aren’t love and happiness. Love and happiness are more easily found by finding equals

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On a post making fun of Musk you go and post a link to his website. Fuck X.com! No one should be sharing links to that site.

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To a shallow person, it may as well be the same.

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Curtains.

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And yet he remains miserable and lonely

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Money only buys happiness to up about like a 100k a year or so. I don’t know it might be even more now, but definitely not over 200k.

It used to be roughly 70k USD and 50k EUR some 10 years ago when I read the study. That’s the point at which you’re financially secure enough to have your basics needs met and have enough over to climb towards self-actualization.

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Probably not: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2208661120