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Their unhappy is not you and I's unhappy. Not even close. They don't know suffering. Their worst days would be nothing more than mild annoyances to us. They lack perspective, sure, but don't ever think they're miserable. They don't know the meaning of the word.
Whatever you have to tell yourself as you chase the dream. Can't buy your way out of being a human creature. There's lots of history that shows all the money in the world can't stop some folks from being miserable, angry fucks.
All that history is nothing but fairy tales to make unsuccessful people feel alright for not being absolute sociopaths. None of it is real. Those who have more than ~$5 million net worth are incapable of feeling misery in the same sense that you and I feel. They are insulated from those concerns and will never feel the depths of despair that the common man does. To pretend otherwise is sheer ignorance, even if coming out of place of vain optimism that we're all somehow equal.
You'll tell yourself that because you want to be like that, so you strive for it. You need to believe you'll escape your essential humanity. You can't. You won't. Rich people are entirely the same exact creature we are. Cannot purchase your way out of that. Call history fairy tails all you want, but you won't convince me, I've been on both sides of the coin. I know from first hand experience how utterly basic and human rich people are.
They are not unique or special in any way. They are just people. They have more nice stuff and they have power, but they are still just the same species of clever ape we all are. If they all died, they would just be replaced. We replace billionaires all the time. We treat the money as more important than any meat behind it anyway.