Re:“Fuck You” Money
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:53PM
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> To me, it sounds like the real problem is greed.
The thing is, money can be exchanged for just about everything else. So in peoples' thinking, money stands for everything else, and everyone has a "something else" that they want enough money to get.
I think, though, that people want four broad categories of general things. They want security, they want identity, they want satisfaction, and they want rest. The last two you can have enough money to be set for life. Security you kind of can, but (I suspect) you always worry about a big enough black swan and whether you're diversified enough.
But if you're looking for identity, money will never be enough. You're always looking up at someone else who has more money, or a bigger yacht, or a more successful sports team. (Or so it seems to me, someone with nowhere near enough money to try to find my identity there.)
The thing is, money can be exchanged for just about everything else. So in peoples' thinking, money stands for everything else, and everyone has a "something else" that they want enough money to get.
I think, though, that people want four broad categories of general things. They want security, they want identity, they want satisfaction, and they want rest. The last two you can have enough money to be set for life. Security you kind of can, but (I suspect) you always worry about a big enough black swan and whether you're diversified enough.
But if you're looking for identity, money will never be enough. You're always looking up at someone else who has more money, or a bigger yacht, or a more successful sports team. (Or so it seems to me, someone with nowhere near enough money to try to find my identity there.)