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This will be increcibly unpopular, but, money isnt everything. It cant buy you happiness or peace or fulfill your hopes and prayers. Your dog wont love you any more if you have it. In the grand scheme of things, it means very little. If you dont agree with me, ask someone who has a child that is sick with an illness for which there is no cure.
@Curves: You're right! Instead of doing tremendous charity work, Bill Gates should burn all his money instead! Cleanse the world of the evil, evil money!
@Invisiblemoose: I am not saying money is evil, I am also not saying it shouldnt be used for good. All I said was in the grand scheme of things, money isnt the answer for everything. If I thought money was evil, I would be in a convent someplace and not working every day of my life. Its a means to and end. Thats all.
@Curves: That is a statement made by people without money problems or stay at home Mom's or by people who only know rich assholes.
Going bankrupt drives people to suicide, depression, drug dependency, and alcoholism. Money isn't everything, but when you have it, it removes daily stress that us normal folks deal with on a daily basis.
I for one never have a problem paying the bills and have no debt, but that doesn't mean I don't worry about things in general. Worry about the market tanking again and loosing my retirement, worry about loosing my job, worry about...
In the grand scheme of things to most people money is everything because it affords you piece of mind that you wouldn't otherwise have. Having the ability to never worry about "shit" again is a beautiful thing and actually affords you the ability to spend more time with family and friends and enjoying life in general. I'm not there yet, but I'm working on it.
@UnderLoK: I am none of those things. I, like everyone, have to pay my bills, I am not a stay at home mother, in fact I am a single mother, and I know people of all economic classes and there are assholes and angels in each group. I am also ethnically Irish, and as such, a world class worrier, but, I still stand on my statement that in the grand scheme, its not that important.
@Curves: Once a person knows what makes them happy, only then can they know if they need more money or not.
Money can buy all sorts of happiness. For example, I'm about to have my first child and I don't get paternity leave and my wife doesn't work because she is out of a job. But I'd be very happy to get to spend every waking day with my child and my wife. That would make me very happy. Sadly, that time is made shorter because I have to spend 9 hours every day at work/in traffic making money to live and support the ones I love.
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Give me $50 billion dollars and I would gladly test that theory out.
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Same exact thought going around in my mind the other day. RIP J...
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Going bankrupt drives people to suicide, depression, drug dependency, and alcoholism. Money isn't everything, but when you have it, it removes daily stress that us normal folks deal with on a daily basis.
I for one never have a problem paying the bills and have no debt, but that doesn't mean I don't worry about things in general. Worry about the market tanking again and loosing my retirement, worry about loosing my job, worry about...
In the grand scheme of things to most people money is everything because it affords you piece of mind that you wouldn't otherwise have. Having the ability to never worry about "shit" again is a beautiful thing and actually affords you the ability to spend more time with family and friends and enjoying life in general. I'm not there yet, but I'm working on it.
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Money can buy all sorts of happiness. For example, I'm about to have my first child and I don't get paternity leave and my wife doesn't work because she is out of a job. But I'd be very happy to get to spend every waking day with my child and my wife. That would make me very happy. Sadly, that time is made shorter because I have to spend 9 hours every day at work/in traffic making money to live and support the ones I love.
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