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This Week in Startups

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The Toxic Wealth Syndrome

A lot of it has to do with chasing dopamine and chasing Instagram photos and status. All this behavior is starting to become like some dystopian science fiction film. People are doing increasingly stupid things to get some dopamine hit or some release on Instagram. This is not a way to live life. And then the pinnacle of this, I don't know if you saw this, Vinnie was, this is so tragic. He went out into the undercurrents of the sea, probably eaten by sharks. For the love of God, teach your kids, show them these videos of kids doing stupid stuff that ends terribly,. Show them them so that they can understand life is precious and don't do stupid things

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