On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM Manar Hussain via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
I had a long chat with an SF friend last year about the challenge of > maintaining a meaningful healthy relationship with his best friend who went > from modest to billionaire over the last few years. Despite the friendship > remaining mutually strong and important to both of them, he's found himself > *silently* self editing what he does and says to keep it workable. This is > the progressive adaptation, ecosystem change, that fuels the emerging new > reality for his billionaire friend that ratchets down awareness of what it > is to be "ordinary folk"... lower empathy, lower EQ by default. > One thing I have observed with the few billionaires I have worked with in the past is that, outside of a small subset of their pre-existing friends+family network, almost EVERY SINGLE interaction with a human being has to do with said human being asking them for money. That is also one major factor in warping their worldview.
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