As a flip question: Who are exemplars of people with extreme wealth who still maintain a high degree of humanity?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, 16:17 Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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