Minecraft creator has US$2.5 billion in his pockets, but is also wildly unhappy
Minecraft creator has US$2.5 billion in his pockets, but is also wildly unhappy
You would imagine that having US$2.5 billion would make you very, very happy. With that amount of money, you could spend US$100,000 every day for the next 68 years and still have US$18 million as leftover. This is how wealthy Minecraft creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, is after having announced a deal that saw Microsoft cough up US$2.5 billion to purchase his company Mojang, who developed the game Minecraft.
However, despite all of his wealth, it would seem that Persson is unhappy. In a series of tweets, he lamented how he was being seen as a sellout and how his immense wealth kept a girl away from him.
He began his tweets by saying that "The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance."
Here are some others:
The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.
— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.
— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.
— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.
— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
It's pretty sad to see this and reminds us of Jacob from the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love who said, "I'm wildly unhappy, and I'm trying to buy it, and it's not working." It seems then that there's some truth to the saying that money can buy you anything but happiness.
On the other hand, it's also quite surprising to see this because Persson wasn't exactly broke to begin with. Mojang has been successful and in 2012 and 2013, Persson reportedly collected more than US$100 million per year in licensing fees for Minecraft.
In any case, you can read more of Persson's tweets by hitting the link to his Twitter account below.