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The myth where success looks like a gift until you try to hug someone.
means The dangerous ability to turn everything you touch to profit or perfection, at the cost of warmth, connection, or anything you actually wanted to keep soft.
from From the myth of King Midas, granted by Dionysus the power to turn whatever he touched into gold — a wish that curdled the moment his food, wine, and finally his own daughter went rigid and metallic under his hands. The phrase 'golden touch' or 'Midas touch' was lifted straight out of that Greek legend into everyday English, usually to praise someone's knack for making money or ventures succeed — the irony of the original curse mostly left behind, though 'golden touch' keeps a faint shiver of it: the sense that the gift and the loss were always the same gesture.
- origin
- King Midas, Greek myth, cursed not blessed
- the catch
- he turned his daughter to gold too
- modern use
- praises investors, ignores the starving part
- irony
- the original golden touch was a punishment