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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Shiv is closer to 16 weeks, so possibly not showing with a first-time pregnancy.

The convo with her doctor going over the screening results was just a few days ago (each episode is one day this season), and the dr. was talking about seeing her next at the 20 week appt. You are only going to the dr every 4 weeks at that stage of pregnancy. This is my understanding of the timeline, correct me if I am off base.[/quote]

Each episode is only supposed to be 1 day? I've been very confused by how much time has supposedly gone by but this seems a little unrealistic. They were in NY in episode 3 when Logan died and episode 4 was the next day at Logan's apartment; then episode 5 is the next day in Norway; episode 6 a day later in LA? [/quote]

Private jets, helicopters, billionaires. It's not that unrealistic. These people are not booking commercial flights, wasting time in traffic, standing in lines, etc.

Though they obviously spent at least 2 days in Norway (there's an overnight).

Speaking of private jets, I found that scene with Shiv and Lukas on the plane pretty hilarious in terms of billionaire ahole behavior. Him calling from the next jet over, then walking over BAREFOOT to visit, then making some comment about the interior of her jet and her rolling her eyes and calling him out on the childishness of insulin someone's private jet interior. I have no idea if that's what it's actually like to live that life but it was funny to contemplate in that scene.[/quote]

Not a billionaire, but having worked with people like this and done my time on corporate jets — that scene rang *so* true. When you get to that level, it’s really the only thing that distinguishes the incredibly rich from the ridiculously rich from the obscenely rich. But the biggest flex of all is not caring. It was a “tell” — Matsson is new to it and still impressed by the trappings of wealth.

Upthread someone questioned Kendall’s comment about the size of his room in a Norway. That rang true to me, as well, but it had nothing to do with Kendall being spoiled. Kendall was sensitive to the status games Matsson was playing. That’s why he asked Roman if his room was small as well. He doesn’t care about it if everyone has a small room, but he wants to know if he’s being dissed. [/quote]

That's interesting, reminds me of a New Yorker article I read last year about super yachts, all these billionaires playing games to get the biggest boat. It makes you realize what a trap all this is, none of these people will ever be truly satisfied.[/quote]

Michael Lewis's book The New New Thing talks about this too. It's a really interesting profile of all these tech billionaires and what drives them. It is very hard to read about stuff like this and maintain a large amount of respect for these guys. Most of them are petty, permanently unhappy people who have destroyed their families and have no real friends. Many of them have likely personality disorders. There may have once been a time when the richest people in the world were living the best lives (maybe, I'm skeptical) but it's definitely not now. They might be living comfortable lives but many/most of them are miserable human beings.[/quote]

It's impossible to have that much money and not be surrounded by people who either want your money or only like you because you have that much money.[/quote]

I don't know, some people seem to manage it. You could also always give your money away. You are not required to spend it on a yacht that is 12 ft longer than some other billionaire's yacht in order to win a dick measuring contest that literally no one but you cares about.

Like if anyone has a choice in how they live their lives, it's billionaires.[/quote]

The point above wasn't about their useless spending. It's about the way they lose touch with other human beings. The people around you change and they aren't going to be good people. That will change you.[/quote]

Yes but some people manage to not wind up surrounded with sycophants and other users. Warren Buffet still lives in Nebraska and seems to have a normal, low key marriage to his second wife (his first wife died, though they were separated for a long time). Bill Gates seems to continue to be fairly down to earth and is, by all reports, a decent person to work with and derives a ton of personal satisfaction in his charitable work. A number of the Waltons have lived very normal lives focused mostly on family. And while not at this wealth level, the Kennedys are another wealthy family that seems to have maintained their sanity by focusing closely on strong family ties and charitable work.

It is not inevitable that becoming a billionaire means that you can't have good people around you or that you have to become out of touch with other humans. Yes, it happens and we have lots of very prominent examples of that. But it's a question of character. A lot of these people have very weak character. They were always greedy and disinterested in relationships, and their wealth just exposed that.[/quote]

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